The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-14 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
October, 1844 and 1845, showing the Increase or De-
crease thereof.

YEARS ENDED OCT. 10.
1844. 1845. Incr. Decr.
£ £
Customs .. 20,243,505 18,652,552 . 1,590,953
Excise..
Stamps
Taxes
Property Tax 5,158,470 5,127,126 .... 31,344
Post Office 672,000 688,000 16,000
Crown Lands.. 135,000 145,000 10,000 ....
Miscellaneous . 696,357 902,960 206,603 ....
Total Ordinary
Revenue.... 49,603,514 48,774,504 793,287 1,622,297
Imprest & other
Moneys.... 181,515 406,619 225,104 ....
Repayments of
Advances
Total Income 50,741,622 ,50,506,883 1,387,558 1,622,297

150,741,622
Deduce

;50,506,883
Increase .

;1,387,55811,622,297
1,387,558

Decrea

.se on the Year..

234,739

QUARTERS ENDED OCT. 10.

1844. 1845. 1 Incr. I Decr.
£
£ I £
Customs 6,002,855 4,848,363 1 .... 1,154,492
Excise
Stamps
Taxes .
Property Tax 1,938,711 1,823,883 .... 134,828
Post Office
Crown Land,
Miscellaneous 220,961 465,102 244,1411 ....
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Total Ordinary
Revenue.. . . 14,220,544 13,312,908 387,62811,295264
Imprest &other
Moneys .... 28,117 24,591 .... 3,526
Repayments of
Advances .. 123,692 473,881 350,1891 ....
Total Income ,14,372,353 13,811,380 1 737,817 1,298,790

114,372,333
Deduci

13,811,380
;Increase

L 298,790
737,817

Decrea:

;e on the Qi

tarter...

560,973

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

The celebrated race-horse Hebert de Gorham, which
broke down while running for the Cumberland Plate, at
the Carlisle races, has been sold at Duncaster for £5OO.
At a trotting and galloping match, at Wimbleton-com-
mon, on Thursday, Mayler's pony beat Cable's horse for
£lO aside.

A quoiting match between Mr. D. Weir, of Glasgow,
and Mr. A. Smith, of Mauchline, for £lOO, was won,
after five days play, by Weir, who scored 290, whilst his
antagonist only scored 265. Weir has now gained two
out of three games.
FOOT RACE.—The great Foot Race, for £lOO. between
Atkin-on, of Spark-bridge, near Ulverston, and Tetlow,
of Hollinwood. near Manchester, came off on Wednes—
day, on a mile of measured ground on the highway, be-
tween Lowick Bridge and Nihthwaite, eight miles from
Ulverston. Atkinson had 25 yards advance given of his
opponent, and he maintained decided advantage during
the first quarter of a mile, when Tetlow made a spring
and bolted up to him in grand style, and afterwards left
him in the rear. Poor Atkinson gave up the contest
when about 600 yards from the winning post, completely
exhausted.

PHILOSOPHY OF TOYS.—Give a child a shut box and it
will probably examine it all round, and in a very short
time toss it away. The sight gratified for a little, but a
change of image was desired, and this was the most obvi-
ous method of procu'ing a obange. By this act the child
brings up the consciousness of exertion ; and the sight of
a moving thing reproduces former images of motion and
activity. Show it that the box opens, and it resumes the
study of it—shuts it itself, opens it again ; thus reverting
from image to image, and delighting in the transformation
as the work of its own hands. It will now be long ere It
orepar
tof melody
the
resort to the extreme step of throwing it away, and seek-
ingother observations on childhood, we can see that a toy,
which has nothing moveable or changeable about it, is a
it back to throw it away again. From this and all
very imperfect thing ; it has little source of thought in it.
With a finely-finished ornamental toy—an effigy of a man.
a dog. or bird—a child will not lose much time ere it
treat it as it would a stick,
.. or a spoon, or an old cannister,
producem"oituhthittotorest
ideas of life and. motion, and self-exertion—toss it away
of sucking the breast. It is a very common error to con-
found toys with ornaments in amusing children. We
hear a nurse,
. on holding up a pretty bauble to an infant.
—v i zo.; applybea beat
theit tt:bitlse and
dasurathe
saying, " See, such a pretty thing ! " as if the child's Ca-
pacity of enjoyment as yet contained nothing but a love of
dazzle. It !s common, too, to present to the eye what is
not given into the hand—a very thankless indulgence.
The sense of beauty and of nice imitation are of late
growth. What childhood needs is copiousness of images.
resembling, and fit for restoring those broad palpable
ideas which it has been able to gain—to keep the faculty
of identification and recovering of the past working all the
day long. It is thus preparing itself for the highest oper-
ations of intellect in mature life. By indulging it in
noises and rapid motions of all kinds, we are. besides
ideas breeding happiness, cultivating of activity, bustle,
! and life, which are the foundation of the habits of the
L smart active workman or man of business, the animated,
- rapid, vehement orator, or the stake-all enthusiast.—
Westminster Review.