The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-16 00:00:00

X 5.780,000
4,120,000

9,900,000
495,000

i per cent. on this would be
Etequiring, in order to equal the re -
1819, a total of .. 10,395,000

Taking now the actual produce of the revenue for
these, two departments in the quarter ending October,
1840, -the account stands thus
Custom

£5,660,000
3,916,000

9,576,000
fore, keeping up the compari-
-
veen the. two October quarters, and giving the

five per cent to the last, is
mut £820,000 on the quarter; and there occurs an
•al deficiency, leaving that additional five per cent.
out of the question, of £324,000 in the two
its of the Customs and Excise.
in the present account are compa-
What the Chancellor of
the Exchequer is to obtain from the new survey, and
idition to the assessed taxes, will not appear until the
-rns for the January quarters are made. In the
there has been a trifling improvement, quite
The Postoffice does not look
_.., at least seems to be making,
...isposed to deal rigidly with a measure
only faulty in being commenced too early,
is conferring and will confer an immense
t. on all classes of the community. At the pre-
te of production, the Postoffice will still yield a
to the country of about half a million annu-
_l.-.:ficiency, however, added to the
iv described, and taking the ministerial es-
.d year as the basis of the account, the
eturn compared with the corresponding pe-
1, may fairly he said to present a falling off
'n one million one hundred thousand

le additionz

the other

little importance

nportant e
, but soma

are m

With this (

s state of things for a country threat-
nd the more so, as the Treasury
_.:2,-ation of what the nation may
la of their masters, have evinced a dis-
;represent and to conceal, which is pecu-
sible in the present situation of public
re treated, for example, with some unin-

ful antic

_
bills" received in payment
irried to account; and dis-
,
z from the last quarter having ended
ch prevented _ the excise collectors
till a week later,
seven days to the

not always find their
I'he fact, too,

;er with another !

of sight, that parliament did in
i addition of five per cent. to the old
Lse duties. We readily agree, and
sed the opinion as well as observed
party feeling should never enter into
ie state of the national resources ;
can be entertained for men who can-
and honest account, and who do all
•ble and distort it when presented
They shut out the sympathy and
triots, who must feel the inutility
those dealers in false pretences
difficulties.

out or

purposely abstain from any analyilis of the yearly
new state of things with
en since this period last
tself over the whole four
ierve no purpose but that
as an additional aid in
ournals.

to taxa'

a can s

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BUTTON FOR REPEAL
(From the Ext

le Dublin R

iment was read

er.)
peal. Association this

Ballyknock Cottage, near Tandragree,
Sept. 27, 1840. _
-. .•

alis requests Atkins will make him
trousers, of the grey cloth, and mixed
ecommended by Mr. O'Connell; coat
repeal buttons. His height is six feet,

ry repeal, it is hard to say what
n be the meaning of " repeal but-
_ has nothing to do with buttons. But-
o union.
Repeal disjoins, buttons con-
_l is the very antithesis to buttons. Re..
mild abjure buttons, ay, and hooks and eyes
Why should the right side of the coat be con-
-1 with the left ? why should
_the coat be united
the breeches

But wh

Why. should there be any more
I garments than united kingdoms ? Why should
gracefully suspended, lake a male_
Justice to breeches ! Justice to

breecheg

! should be the cry. The dress represents-
.epeal principles -should be the ancient blan-