The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-26 00:00:00

Vote to refund escheated property.

51,515,064
Excesses on last year's votes for navy,
army, and ordnance 642,632

Total

.e 52,157,696

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Upon this calculation the surplus of the year would be
£104,304. It would be seen that the expenditure was
enhanced nearly a million by excesses upon the estimates
of last year for the navy, army, and ordnance services.
In tuture yearn, when we recovered from these excesses,
it was clear that we should have a very coubidcr.ma sur-
plus of income over expenditure. It would be observed
that he had taken the ordinary income of the country at
very little more than it bad realized during preceding
years. There was an improvement in the manufacturing
districts, money was easy, there was a good supply of
bullion in the country, and he saw no reason whatever for
anticipating any decline of our present prosperity. With
regard to expenditure, he also hoped that there would be
an opportunity in the ensuing year of enforcing still more
important measures of economy. In the estimates for the
present year there were reductions amounting in the
whole to £1,511,455, arising as follows : £718,168 in the
navy estimates, £433,914 in the army, £337,878 in the
ordnance, and £21,500 in the miscellaneous. A great
reduction had also been made this year in the public expen-
diture by the consolidation of the Excise Board with that
of Stamps and Taxes. This consolidation would save
upwards of £247,000 a year in salaries. With regard to
the amount of surplus, he admitted that he thought nothing
but the peculiar circumstances of the time would justify
them in going on with so small an amount of surplus. So
long, however, as they had a surplus, let its amount be
what it might, he saw no reasons for increasing the bur-
dens of the nation. On the other hand, it was obvious
that with so small a surplus it would be impossible to
make any changes of taxation, whether by reductions of
such duties as those upon tea or stamps, or in any other
way. The right 1-on. gentleman concluded, after a speech
of an hour and ten minutes, by putting a formal vote into
the hands of the chairman of committees.
Various members addressed the committee in suc-
cession.

On the motion for the third reading of the Transporta-
tion for Treason Bill,
Mr. ANSTEY charged the Irish members with want of
sincerity, unanimity, and "pluck," in opposing this mea-
sure, and declaimed against it in violent language for up-
wards of an hour. He moved the omission of words in
the first clause rendering the bill a declaratory enact-
ment.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Sir G. GREY opposed
the amendment ; which was supported by the Irish mem-
bers and Mr. Muntz. The object was stated to he to pave
the way for other amendments denuding the bill of its ex
post facto operation.
The amendment was rejected by 151 to 27.
Mr. REYNOLDS moved another amendment, with a view
to remove the retrospective operation of the bill.
This amendment was also rejected, the numbers being
104 to 24. A third amendment of Mr. Anstey was also
rejected on a division.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

FRANCE.

The cholera is rapidly disappearing in Paris.
Paris has settled down into quietness and order, and
business is proceeding with even more regularity than be-
fore the demonstration of the 13th instant.

It is said that Ledru Rollin reached Ostend on Friday
evening, and having supped at the Hotel de la Cour Im-
periale, he left the same night for England.
An important discovery of a clandestine manufactory of
gunpowder and a concealed depot of arms has been made
at Moulins.

Lyons is perfectly tranquil, and the disarming of the
insurgents is proceeding without resistance. The accounts
from the other provlucca are entirely of a, pacific cha-
racter.

Letters from Macon of the 19th instant state that pre-
parations had been made by the Socialists in that town to
rise in insurrection bad the movement in Paris or Lyons
succeeded. They resisted the departure of the 48th Regi-
ment of the Line for Lyons, and it was only by command-
ing his men to charge bayonets that the colonel was en.
abled to force a passage through the streets.
_ _ _

La Liberte states that a fetter has been received in
Paris from the ex-King Louis Philippe, dated 18th June,
in which that monarch congratulates the French nation
on the bloodless victory gained by the army of Paris. He
declares that the triumph of the friends of order over the
republican party must necessarily and inevitably produce
the restoration of the monarchy. Louis Philippe (adds
the Liberte) announces, moreover, to his filen& that in a
letter addressed by the Emperor Nicholas to the Duchess
of Orleans, and communicated by her to the ex-royal
family, he tells her that she must waive the claims of her
children and unite with the elder branch. The Czar, it is
added, persists in consolidating the monarchial principle
on a legitimate basis. The King, who was overthrown in
February, consequently recommends all his friends to
transmit this resolution to their adherents, in order that
henceforth there may be but two camps in Europe—roy-
alty and legitimacy on the one hand, and revolutionary
movement on the ether. La Liberte'completes the com-
munication by declaring that the friend to whom the letter
was addressed is one of the persons enjoying the greatest
favour at the palace of the President of the Republic.
At Moulins, in France, on Sunday week, the populace
shouted, on the approach of the procession of the Fete-
Dieu, " Vive la Republique Sociale," and threw stones
against the ornaments on the altars in the streets.
The section of the Paris and Strasburg Railroad be-
tween Paris and Meaux was opened to the public on Sun-
day. The railroad from Paris to Tonnerre, and from
Dijon to Chalons-sur-Saone, is likewise to be opened in a
few days.
Madame Cavaignac, the mother of the General, has
fallen a victim to the cholera.

Madame Marrast, wife of the late President of the
National Assembly, died in Paris on Thursday.
General Oudinot's chief aide-de-camp, Major Espivant,
is the brother of a gentleman well kown in London. He
is the grandson of that nobleman of Brittany described in
the " Sentimental Journey," who deposited his sword
among the archives of Rheims, and reclaimed it during
Sterne's visit. The sword has descended from grandfa-
ther to grandson, and has made a campaign in Africa.