The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-07 00:00:00

THE REVENUE.

The abstract of the net produce of the revenue for the
quarter and year ending Wednesday, appears in the London
papers of yesterday, it shows an increase of £1,748,945 on
the quarter. and of £714,983 on the year—an increase which
will not, it is to be feared, balance the receipts and expendi-
ture for the financial year, which closes on the sth of April.
There is still a decrease of revenue from ordinary sources,
though it is far from being so great as that which so startled
the public last quarter. The present decrease is only
£307,220 in the whole, or about half the amount of deficit
in the excise returns of last quarter; of that decrease
£275,516 are in the customs, and may doubtless be attri-
buted to the suspension of business in the wine trade, con-
sequent on the bad faith of the Portuguese tariff ; it is
clearly not ascribable to diminished consumption of necessa-
ries, because not only do the customs returns exhibit an in-
crease from the sugar duties of the quarter—a sure test of
the comparative well-doing or rather the comparative absence
of ill-doing amongst the working classes—but the excise
shows merely a nominal deficiency on the quarter. No part
of this quarter's customs is moreover derived from corn du-
ties as from a large proportion of last quarter's. The
smallness of this decrease is then satisfactory " as times
go," and may, it is to be hoped, be regarded as indicative of
an approach to the closing of the misery, suffering, and
privation which have been inflicted upon us ; though cer-
tainly our distress is still deplorable, and our prospects most
gloomy.

The increase is exhibited under the bead Miscellaneous,
the Post-office, and the Property-tax. The quarter's mis-
cellaneous return is swelled out by the sum of £511,406, the
produce of silver received under the Treaty of Nankin—an
extraordinary item, which being deducted from the actual
increase reduces the amount of increase to be placed to the
credit of the sources of revenue to £1,237,539. Without this
fortunate addition from China the miscellaneous receipts
would only have been £30,150. The total receipts from the
income tax during three quarters amount to X 2,456,288, of
which £1,885,232 have been collected during the last. The
amounts under this head set down to the credit of the two
preceding quarters were we presume derived chiefly from
funded property, while that of the present quarter is princi-
pally gathered from income of all other descriptions. The
sum collected during the last quarter has not been got in
under pressure of any sort, for we never knew of any tax
being collected with less annoyance or worry than the income
blx. Nearly two millions have then been paid in during that
quarter with as much spontaniety as any tax it ever dis-
charged ; and there must be a very large balance still out-
standing—much larger in all probability than the sum total
already received. Next quarter's returns—which will not
however exhibit the income tax returns for a year—may then
equalise.

NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.—The nomination took place on
Wednesday. Mr. Gisborne, Mr. Walter, junr., and Mr.
Feargus O'Connor were severally proposed and addressed
the electors; but at the close of the proceedings Mr. O'Con-
nor withdrew. On a show of hands, it was declared to be
in favour of Mr. Gisborne, when a poll was demanded on
behalf of Mr. Walter, which would take place on the follow-
ing day (yesterday).
LORD MAYOR',S DINNER.—On Wednesday, the Lord
Mayor of London gave a splendid banquet to Sir Robert
Peel and a distinguished party. The healths of Sir Robert
Peel and the Lord Chancellor were very warmly honoured.
We observe the name of Lord Sandon amongst the company.

WOOD PAVING.-Al` memorial has recently been presented
to the Lords of the Privy Council, praying for relief from the
duty imposed by the new tariff on the blocks of timber im-
ported for wood pavement, but their lordships have declined
to accede to the request.

At the annual meeting of the Dublin and Kingstown
Railway Company, on Saturday, the number of passengers
booked at all the stations during the past year was stated to
be 1,368,633. Gross income, £42,401. Profits of working
the railway for the year, £21,801. A dividend of five per
cent. was adopted.

TIM LAUREATESHIP.-Our readers will, we think, be
gratified to learn that Her Majesty offered the office made
vacant by the death of his friend Southey to Wordsworth.
He has gratefully declined the proffered honour on occoint
of his age. To-morrow (Friday) will be his birthday, and it
will be the 73rd. His declining to accept the office is as
reasonable and becoming, on account of his advanced age, as
was the offer of it, on account of his exalted merit. Mr.
Wordsworth attended the funeral of his friend Southey, and
is in good health for his time of life.—Morning Post.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS.—The Royal children will,
it is fully expected, reside for the benefit of the sea air in
Lord Ashburton's villa at Stoke's-bay during the ensuing
summer. An officer of the household has this week been
inspecting the premises, to ascertain if it contains sufficient
accommodation for Lady Lyttleton, the governess, and the
small household that will accompany the interesting infants.
No situation in England is better adapted for the purpose
designed than that fixed on ; it is dry and commanding,
without being so elevated as to court the keen air, and is far
removed from any stagnant water, or the miasma arising
from tidal mud land, the shore of Stoke's-bay being mud
and shingle.—Hampshire Telegraph.
ACCOUCHEMENT OF HER MAJESTY.—Every preparation
has been made at Buckingham Palace in anticipation of this
highly interesting event, which is expected to take place
before the termination of the ensuing week. It will be re-
membered that (in November, 1841) for several days previ-
ously to the birth of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
and up to the morning of the day preceding Her Majesty's
accouchement, the Queen, accompanied by her illustrious
consort, promenaded daily, as usual, in the private grounds
attached to Buckingham Palace ; thus showing that the ge-
neral health of the Sovereign upon that occasion, as upon
the present, continued in its usual state of excellence to the
latest period. The following physicians will be in attendance
at Buckingham Palace at the accouchement of Her Majesty :
Dr. Charles Locock, first physician accoucheur to the Queen ;
Dr. Robert Ferguson, second physician accoucheur; and Sir
James Clark, Her Majesty's physician in ordinary. Mr.
Richard Blagden, surgeon accoucheur to the Queen, will also
be in attendance. Mrs. Lilly, the monthly nurse, who was
in attendance upon Her Majesty at the birth of the Princess
Royal and the Prince of Wales, has received the Queen's
commands to resume her important duties upon the forth-
coming auspicious occasion. The- Court is not expected to
return to Windsor until a few days before the Ascot races.
Her Majesty, should the state of the Sovereign's health
permit, has arranged to leave Buckingham Palace for Clare-
mont within a month from the period of the Royal accouche-
ment, and there to remain for about a week or ten days, re-
turning from thence to Buckingham Palace for a few days
previously to the Court's departure to Windsor for the
summer season.