The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

CHARGE.

Permanent Debt
Terminable Annuities
Interest on Exchequer Bills issued
to meet the charge on the Con-
solidated Fund
Sinking Fund........
Civil List..
Other charges on the Consolidated

Fund... .
To pay off Exchequer Bills raised
per Act 6 and 7 Victoria, c. 87,
for Opium Compensation, &c..
For Advances ... .

Total Charge
Surplus.

3,395,198
1,328,281

21,0091

97,613

326,014

140,000

5,308,11:.
7,406,034

12,714,119

This return has one distinguishing feature of a most
cheering description—au increase in the Customs, com-
pared with the corresponding period of 1843, on the year
of 1,723,1651., and on the quarter of 473,347/. This is
the true pivot of our national prosperity, and is the more
gratifying when the bold reductions are considered which
the Minister was encouraged to make when supported by
so grand a reserve as the property tax. Swift's remark,
that in the arithmetic of the Customs two and two do not
always make four, could not have a more apt and definite
application. In this case Sir Robert Peel's subtraction
has been turned into addition, and he has proved finance
to be his stronghold, whatever errors are to be found in
his general system of policy.
A trifling decrease in the Excise on the quarter is to be
ascribed rather to growing habits of temperance in fi,
lower orders than to any dimunition of means. It will
bear, in fact, no other construction, for activity reigns in
almost all the departments of trade, and the wages of
labour in the' manufacturing districts have probably
doubled in amount within the past year.
It is consolatory also, and another good omen, to find
that the Post-office, the great accumulation of pennies,
has advanced 82.000/. on the year, and no less than
40.000/. on the quarter.
The property-tax, which shows an increase of 106,4131.
on the year, and a decrease of 89,1931. on the quarters
may be said to have found its level, and to provoke no re-
mark, except to hope that under circumstances of suet
promising augury we may soon get rid of it. In the pre-
sent account is to be seen, moreover, the effect of the_
judicious application of the surplus revenue in paying en
deficiency bills ; only about 2,500,0001. will be wanted to
meet the charge on the consolidated fund for the quarter
just ended.
The total increase of the revenue for the year i 5
1,395,349!., and on the quarter 520,9441. But for the
disadvantageous effect of the strange item termed " Lois"
cellaneous," which has no proper place id this account,
the increase on the year would have been returned at
about 2,160,000/.

THE CEIOLERA IN PARIS.—A history is hardly corn,'
plete without a plague, or pestilence, or famine, or some
such wide-spreading calamity, on which the historian call
spend the dark colours of his descriptive eloquence. Con-
sidering that M. Louis Blanc had but the space of ten
years under him, he must have regarded himself as very
fortunate in meeting with the cholera, which figures here
a iss dead,
pa perhaps
teamraypkser edssuparerp,cdat
surpassed
sbueladec.oinffi n e pestilence.d,
terriblei
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often presented
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those
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cholera piled up in carts and tumbrils. in
aand
od ones, offered
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there
ecirsiioari
affitnth,ail
coffins
sddurrirseieozdv;lheeoborfsu
COta
slightlyu s the
tents being poured upon the pavement. But the stiang°
reports which were afloat amongst this credulous and paV
sionate population, form the most striking feature in the
picture. It was reported in Paris, as our readers will
probably remember, that there was, in reality, no ei?°'
lera, but that poison had been poured into the fountain!
of the metropolis, and had been mingled with the wines iut •
the flour ; and thus it was that the people were dying. to
was dangerous to be found with a phial in the baud, or
be seen sitting, without any ostensible cause, near one °
the public fountains. A young man was looking into a
well; he was massacred. Another met the same fate, "I,LI°
was leaning over the door of a dealer in wine and
in order to see what o'clock it was. A Jew in the maskeb,;
place was thought to have a sinister laugh ; they searclie'
him, found a packet of white powder—it was camphor-1.
they killed him, and set on the dogs to tear the body
Blackwood's Magazine.
SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION.—If parents send their ebilici
dren to be educated by the government, they sh°ilia
know this, that the education must be scriptural. The,reir
lies the government's duty and responsibility ; it is ine't
duty to God, and to the people. To compel the re
t 0
to send his child to your school, that invades the pa ni,cp
pare
e
responsibility and right; but to sanction that parent 'o;e
sends his child to your school, in refusing to a
Scriptures to his child, to receive that child on concliti°4
that you act on that refusal, is beyond your own duty."o/
responsibility to God. It is to be a partaker of the ,I°,t,
the parent against the child for which you will he sec, n''a
able unto God. This is the naked principle of the 13°':80
of Education, and it is one in which no cliurchmano‘ted
acquiesce for a moment. The rev. gentleman then 0. to
a passage from the Bth report of the commissioner's
re-
show that he had correctly stated their principle. Pied,
gretted to say that when this s.atement was investi'4sret
it conveyed a meaning totally different from the apra.
_ve
one. Many were deceived by it, and having read it, l_.e,
said, the board does not exclude the Scriptures; the au
verse is the fact ; they say so expressly. But when trait''
lated into plain English, it meant this—we do
0
or prohibit the Scriptures in schools when parents chows_
their children to be instructed therein. The rule
somewhat more lax than it was at the original consti.tuiPfr
of the board ; but still they allow parents to prohibit. noelii
children from being instructed in Scripture, and they;ce
the
Why, that I am to acquiesce in the r.gil
inno t
tghraatn ta
sosnaemfea
dr thai
an
tghwa
rhi et
yn the
trh, aetrpeanr oent. wtlaicar
principle?t and
authority of my, fellow-man to exercise an au horny',
.°l;u,
his child, in my school, supreme to that of God ; noi ',yea
to peril his immortal soul! Is this to keep your: this
to act
and not
faithful
stewardspartakers
?in
lost hheerarnnehno'nsessitnsst?e w
alr'd NL„,I-li-a_op
says, " I acknowledge. that 1 and my children dor:anti;
rob my master, but I may connive my fellow7ser.
.c
in doing so when they please." This is the princip.l
I'B
the National Board, and that on which they requir
ministers of the Lord Jesus Christ to ea.—Speech °f
ii•
Rev. R. J. .211'Ghee.