The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-12 00:00:00

THE REVENUE.

An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great
Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended the 10th of
Oct., 1846 and 1847, showing the Increase or Decrease
. thereof.

YEARS ENDED OCTOBER 10. •
1846. 1847. Incr. Doer.
£ £ £ £
Customs 18,150,933 18,418,157 267,224 . .
Excise..
12,251,932 12,092,018 .... 159,914.
Stamps 6,983,129 7,135,378 152,249 ..
Taxes •
Property Tax 5,332,157 5,438,453 106,296 ..
Post Office 802,000 859,000 57,000 ...
Crown Lands 115,000 67,000 .... 48,000
Miscellaneous 256,045 202,837 .. .. 153,208
Total Ord. Rev. 48,229,756 48,542,520 673,886 361,122
China Money 968,503 .... 968,503
Imprest &other
Moneys
Repayments of
Advances.
792,447 .. 379,694
Total Income*. 50,595,147 149,552,879 673,8864,716,154

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QUARTERS ENDED OCTOR

)1,716,154
673,886

'ear . . £1,042,268

1846. 1847. i Incr. Decr.
£ £ £ £
Customs 5,310,835 4,936,644 .. 374,191
Excise 4,181,926 3,539,946 , 641,980
Stamps.
Taxes 209.940 213,885 3,945 ...
Property Tax.. 1,972,128 1,918,645 .. . 53,483
Post Office.... 217,000 222,000 5,000
Crown Lands.. 45,000
Miscellaneous . 177,910 73,126 .... 104,784
'Total Ord. Rev. 13,889,103 12,612,191 8,945 1,285,857
China Money.. 227,644 .. 227,641'
imprest &other
Moneys .. .. 33,815 43,537 9,722 ..
Repayments o
Advan-ees. . . 199,882 187,486 .... 12,396
Total Income*. 14,350,444 112,843,214 18,667 11,525,897

14,350,444 112,843,214 18,667
Deduct Increase

[1,525,897
18,667

Decrease on the Quarter.. £1,507,230
On the customs there has been a decrease for the quar-
ter, compared with the corresponding quarter last year,
-of no less than £374,191. Several circumstances, how-
ever, particularly a considerable sum on the importation
of corn, raised the former quarter above its natural average.
It was an extraordinary quarter. The comparison is,
therefore, unfair. Not a sixpence has been received in the
quarter just ended for the importation of grain. Clearing
away those articles which disturb rather than enter into
the comparison, all that can be said of the quarter just
ended is, that it presents no improvement upon the cor-
responding quarter of last year. This, however, only
shows that, from accidental reasons, there has been no
increase in the quantity of articles liable to duty actually
entered for consumption. The importation and the con..
sumption of sugar, coffee, cocoa, and foreign spirits have
undergone a very great increase this year, tea alone
standing still. On the whole year just ended, compared
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The Excise, as being less exposed to the play of mere
speculative causes, and as bearing almost directly upon
the consumption of certain articles of luxury or general
utility, is usually considered the truest barometer of the
national prosperity. Here there has been a decrease on
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in the earlier part of the year. In consequence of the
high pri.;e of barley, the malt charged for excise during
the first six months of this year was less by eight million
bushels than during the same period last year. This
alone would make a difference of about £750,000 in the
Excise ; £500,000 of which tells in the present returns,
the remainder being left to the statement that will appear
January 5, 1841. There is also a decrease of nearly two
million gallons in the British spirits charged to the Excise
for the same six months ; rather more than half of which
decrease tells in the present return, to the amount of
£240,000. The decrease of Excise from malt and spirits
would lead to a still larger decrease than we find on the
quarter. But there has, on the other hand, been a con-
siderable increase in the consumption of bricks, glass, and
some other articles, which has reduced the decrease to a
somewhat less formidable figure than it would otherwise
have presented. The decrease on the whole year is only
£159,914. In the Stamps, Property-tax, Crown Lands,
and " Miscellaneous" heads, we have an aggregate de-
crease of about £250,000 on the quarter. The first of the
above probably indicates a decrease of speculation.
The decrease on the whole year is £1,042,268 ; and,
as the former year enjoyed the benefit of that windfall,
the " China:money," to the amount of £968,503, it may
be considered that the ordinary revenue of the two years
ending respectively October 10, 1846, and October 10,
1847, are as nearly equal as may be. With regard to the
two quarters ending at those dates, we should be thought
rather bold if we attempted to make out a shadow of
equality between the results, when the decrease in the
statement is no less than £1,507,230. If, however, we
deduct from that sum extraordinary items that do not
depend on the fluctuations of trade, the total decrease is
reduced to that we have described on the customs and
excise. In both these instances, the decrease has been
referred directly to the high price of grain, which, ifi the
one case, compelled a suspension of the duties imposed
by the Corn Importation Act, and in the other diminished
the consumption of malt and spirituous liquors. The
decrease on the quarter's revenue is, then, nothing more
or less than the record of the famine.
So far, therefore, and on the face of this statement, we
do not see any cause for complaint. It is evident that the
general consumption of comforts and luxuries has increased
in spite of a calamity which threatened to preclude the
working man from any other outlay except for the mere
preservation of his existence. With the exception—the
very serious exception—that the labourer apparently has
been sadly cut down in his beer, there has been, and is
still, a decided increase in the consumption of comforts
and luxuries. It is by no means our object, however, to
hide the dark side of our affairs, and direct attention to
spots of flattering but deceitful promise. We cannot
forget that there are some features in the commercial
history of the year, no longer recorded in the accounts of
the revenue, of a peculiarly inauspicious character. The
immense decrease in the importation of the raw materials
for manufacture, and consequent decrease now showing
itself in our exports, threaten a serious diminution of the
wealth, the credit, and the happiness of the country.
Our capital, spent in the unavoidable purchase of foreign
supplies, and in railways, that will not for many years add
to our resources, has been withdrawn to a most alarming
extent from those reproductive investments on which all
countries, and most particularly this, must depend for the
maintenance of their ordinary well-being and power.

THE NEW BISHOP OF CARETOWN.-We give in an-
other column an outline of the sermon, delivered by one
of the newly-appointed prelates of our colonial church,
the Bishop of Capetown, preached on Sunday last, in St.
Barnabas'. when a collection was made, as also in Ever-
ton church, in aid of his lordship's diocese. The Bishop
is an admirable preacher, sound and scriptural in doc-
trine, and full of zeal and energy. Since his appointment,
(which was under circumstances most honourable to him-
self), he has been indefatigable in his exertions on behalf
of his new diocese, which equalling great Britain in extent,
and containing a widely scattered population of 120,000
colonists, requires a large support of clergy. The cause
of the church of the colonies should be dear to every
christian, for each colony is an outpost on the border of
heathenism ; and in this especial case, we are more par-
ticularly called on to exert ourselves, as for forty years
we have had a colony at the Cape, and up to the present
time we have not had a church. It had been proposed
to receive the Bishop at a public meeting, at which the
mayor had kindly consented to preside, but the present
mercantile derangements have rendered this inexpedient.
However, as the Bishop is announced to preach on to-
morrow, (Wednesday,) at St. Mark's, Duke-street, we
hope that this opportunity of helping a good work will
be cordially embraced.

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said he was determined to put down this growing and
dangerous malpractice, and fined them each 55., or to be
imprisoned in default for seven days.
DEATH IN BRIBEWELL.—Last Tuesday, a man named
John Fairclough went to his lodgings, and asked his land-
lady for a glass of water, which she gave him. He took it
to his room, and then, it is supposed, swallowed a penny-
worth of arsenic. Being soon after found ill, a surgeon
was sent for, who administered what he conceived was
proper in such a case, and he afterwards went out and
walked about. On Saturday evening he was found in the
streets ill, and was taken to the Main Bridewell for safety,
where he died on Sunday morning. It is stated that he
had applied at the Workhouse, but was not admitted,
for some cause which we have not heard explained. A
post mortem examination of the body will be made, and
an inquest held this day.
ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY, &c.—Two men, Thos. Lace
and John Nolin, were yesterday charged at the Police-court
with having on the night of the 10th of September, stolen
fromu boarding-house in Sparling-street, a tin cash box,
containing a lady's gold watch guard, a mourning ring,
a pair of gold drops, a silver lever watch, and other articles;
also £2O in gold, and a number of seamen's shipping
notes, &c. A reward of £lO had been offered through
the Police-office for the discovery of the perpetrators, and
one of the bills, particularising the robbery, was sent to
Greenock, where it was known one of the prisoners, who
was suspected, lived with a woman called his wife. Both
the prisoners were there apprehended and sent back. A
hatchet, with a notch in the blade for drawing nails was
found and identified.as one that had been seen in Lace's
possession. It was proved that one of the prisoners had
offered swatch in pledge to a pawnbroker here, Mr. Samuel,
but it was not received, Mr. S. himself not being in at the
time. Other evidence was given tending to show that
the prisoners were the guilty parties, and it was ordered
that the informations should be taken and further inquiry
made, preparatory to their commitment for trial. The
prisoner Nolan said be was not aware that the box was
not the property of Lace, who, after breaking it open,
and extracting the contents, " threw it over a bush, ha
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