The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-11 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS..

13- We shall be happy, at all times, to receive communica,
lions on subjects of local or general interest.
DEAF AND DUMB.—In our list of births last week was that of
three children, both of whose parents are deaf and dumb.
We understand from Mr. David Buxton, the principal of
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, that he has satisfied himself.
by personal enquiry, that charitable aid would be well
bestowed 'in the above case, and he will be glad to take
charge of anything that may be contributed.
PROPHECY.—A correspondent, who signs himself a "Con-
stant Reader," says, that, about fifty years since, he saw
the fragment of a pamphlet on the book of Daniel, in
which the writer considered England was alluded to, and
he wishes to obtain some information as to the uthor
of the pamphlet he refers to. This is a very unprofitable
kind of investigation, for it is not difficult, by a little in-
genious shifting, to make prophecies suitable to any cir-
cumstances on a sit principle to Moore's almanack,

which took the day before, or the day after, as sufficiently
near for the purpose.
Sit AKT NG Cant.ETs.—Another "Constant Reader" complains
that his wife, shaking a carpet in the street at half-past
eleven o'c,ock on Saturday night, was forbidden by the
police, on the ground that it was only legal to perform
such duties before eight o'clock in the morning. Upon
this, be enters into a long argument to slow, that such a
law, not only prevented cleanliness, but sanctioned and
encouraged the desecration of the Lord's Day, a conclu-
sion by no means clear, though it serves to show the ex-
tremes to which an argument may be pushed by•a writer
who takes a personal interest in the matter on which he

argues.
The PRESS-GA NO.—lt has been resolved, for the present at
least, to dispense with compulsory service in the army
and navy. " A Protestant" suggests that, should im-
pressment become necessary, the first persons seized
should be the Romish priests. Such an arrangement
would be doubly beneficial. Their absence would do
good at home, while their services on board the fleet, or
in the ranks, might be made to do good abroad.
The PRESTON LOCK-OUT.—G. W. M. complains, and with
touch show of justice, on the conduct of the Mill-owners
with reference to the wages of their operatives. They,
by agitation, obtain a repeal of the corn-laws, ansi when
bread has, in consequence, been reduced from 6d. to 5 I.
per loaf, they lower the wages of their workmen accord-
ingly. The reduction in price discourages the cultiva-
tion of home-grown corn, and bread rises from sd. to 9d.
per loaf, but the masters make no corresponding rise in
wages. Free-trade has, therefore, been a positive injury
to the operative class—for whose benefit it was enacted.
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THE NATIONAL REVENUE.

THE 'customary tables of the National Income
for the year and quarter ended sth April, were
published on •Thursday. Last week•we gave the
statement usually made in anticipation of the re-
sults, but it will be seen upon reference that it has
not been realised. It is true that-upon the total
of the• quarter there is an increase of £213,744, but
it is made up solely by direct taxation, the most
oppressive of all means of raising revenue. Taxes
show an increase of £87,833, and Troperty-tax of
£415,481, and here the improvement ends. The
Customs show a decrease of £106,893. ; the Excise,
a decrease of £155,231; Stamps, a decrease of
26,050; Crown-lands, a decrease 6f £7,000 ; and
Miscellaneous, a decrease of £8,831; the Post-
office returns being exactly the same. Here is no
flattering picture of Mr. GLADSTONE'S financial
ability, :and no pleasant prospect for the future,
when it" is remembered that the source to which
the screw has already been apklied :is the only one
which he seems able to make available for the exi-
gencies .of the coming war. This is a manifest
injustice, for the class which is now -burdened with
a tax amounting, in the year just ended, to
25,975,677, and from which the rest of the com-
munity is exempt, has been already tailed upon to
contribute, three millions more within the next six
months; and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
is unable rto devise any means by which the bur-
den may be more equally distributed. The account
for the year. is much more favourable, there being
an increase under every separate head, with the
exception of Miscellaneous ; the total en Ordinary
Revenue being £1,041,412, and the-gloss amount
of increase, .21,485,056 ; so that, upon•the whole,
the national -resources are in as fair a tondition
as, under existing circumstances, might have been
anticipated. 'ln the items of expenditure is a
charge of about two millions for paying .off non-
commuters of certain stocks, which, with the aa-
ditional amount,devoted to the Sinking Fund, and
the interest of Exchequer Bills, reduces 'the sur-
plus to £1,581,775, instead of £3,359,284, which
was the amount a" the corresponding period of last
year. The Excheauer Bills, which will plythably
be required to meet the charge on the Consolidated
Fund, are stated at -not less than £5,852,048, so
that the interest at the present increased rate will
;form an additional item of expenditure, notwith-
standing Mr. GLADtTONE'S ingenious schemes

savlng.