The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-08 00:00:00

1850_1. 1851. I Incr. I Decr

X 1 £
I 15,490

£ £
Customs 4,333,708 4,318,218
Excise 3,325,225 3,419,810 94,585
Stamps.
Taxes
Property Tax 1,026,835 976,881 .... 49,954
Post Office 210,000 240,000 30,000 ...
Crown Lands 40,000 30,000 .... 10,000
Miscellaneous

Total ordinary
Revenue...
China Money..
Imprest & other
Moneys

12,681,290 12,646,873 134,352 168,769

135,827 I 139,770 I 3,943

Repayments of

Ad''‘'ances

I 188,289 123,409

64,880

Total Income. j 13,005,406 112,910,05211 138,295
Deduct Increase

233.649
138,295

Decrease on the Quarter

I 95,354

Let us enumerate the various items of this revenue ac-
count. On the year there is a decrease in every depart-
ment of the revenue save the Excise and the Post Office ;
and on the quarter there is a decrease in every depart-
ment save the Excise, Post Office, and " Miscellaneous"
receipts. The Customs show on the year a decrease of
£25,122: on the quarter a decrease of £15,490. The
Excise gives an increase of £122,273 on the year, and on
the quarter an increase of £94,585. In the Stamps de-
partment—the great test of the amount of commercial
transactions, notwithstanding the recent reductions—
there is a decrease on the year of £285,250, and on the
quarter a falling-off of £65,275. Taxes show a decrease
for the year of £28,849, and a diminution for the quarter
alone of £28,050 ! The Property-tax (no small test of
the condition of the country) has decreased on the year
£166,418, and on the last quarter alone £49,954, or nearly
one half of the decrease on the whole year. The Post
Office gives an increase on the year of £74,000. Crown
Lands show a decrease of £lO,OOO, which we presume
has occurred—not by any reform in their management,
in the course of the last quarter—for the decrease on the
quarter amounts exactly to the same sum, £lO,OOO. The
" Miscellaneous" item manifests a decrease on the year
of £47,411, and on the quarter there is an increase of
£9,767. There is a budget for the country ! much more
instructive—much more suggestive as to our financial
condition, than any statement which we can hope to
derive from Sir Charles Wood !

THE NEW YACHT AMERICA.

THE DEPARTURE FOR LONDON-THE TRIAL OF SPEED
BETWEEN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN YACHTS.

(From the New York Herald, June 24.)

This superior piece of naval architecture takes her
departure from the port at 7 o'clock this morning, to test
her sailing qualities with the choice yachts of Great
Britain, and, we believe, with those of any other Euro-
pean country who may think fit to place themselves by
her side in a sailing match. As the result will be watched
with much lively interest on both sides of the Atlantic, it
being a trial for superiority in the sailing powers, beauty
of model, and symmetry of construction between the vessels
of England and the United States, a description of the
America cannot be otherwise than interesting to our
readers, both here and in Europe.
She is 95 feet on deck, from stem to stern ; BO feet
keel •, 23 feet amidships; and her measurement 180 tons.
She draws eleven feet of water in sailing trim. Her spars
are respectively 791 and 81 feet long, with 21 inches rake
to the foot. Her main gaff is 26 feet long, and main
boom 58 feet. She carries a lugg foresail, with fore gaff
24 feet long. Length of bowsprit 32 feet. The frame is
composed of five different species of wood, namely,
white oak, locust wood, cedar, chesnut, and hackmatack,
and is supported by diagonal iron braces, equi-distant
from each other four feet. From stem to midships the
curve is scarcely perceptible, her gunwales being nearly
straight lines, and forming with each other an angle of
about twenty-five degrees. The cutwater is a prolonga-
tion of the vessel herself, there being no addition of false
wood, as is usual in most of the sharpest bowed crafts of
similar description. Her fore cabin is a spacious and
elegantly fitted up apartment, 21 ft. by 18 ft. in the clear, on
each side of which are six neat lockers and China rooms.
It contains six commodious berths. Joining the cabin are
two large state rooms, each eight feet square, with ward
rooms and water closets attached. Between these and
the fore cabin there are two state rooms, joining which
are a wash room and pantry, each eight feet. The fore
cabin is ventilated by a circular skylight of about twelve
feet circumference, and it contains fifteen berths. Directly
under the cockpit, which is thirty feet in circumference,
and which forms the entrance to the after cabin, there is a
tastefully fitted-up bath room on the starboard side ; and
opposite, on the larboard side, a large clothes room.
Further aft, under the cockpit, is the sail room.
She has a plain, raking stern, adorned with a large
gilt eagle, resting upon two folded white banners,
garnished with beautifully carved flowers of green
colour. Her sides are planked with white oak three inches
thick, the deck with yellow pine 21 inches thick. Three
streaks of the clamps are of yellow pine, three inches
thick. The deck beams are also of yellow pine. All the
combings are of the finest description of mahogany. The
mils, which are composed of white oak, are fourteen
inches high, six inches wide, and three inches thick. She
is copper-fastened throughout, and copper-sheathed from
the keel to six inches above the water line, making 111
feet in all. Her sides are painted of a uniform lead colour,
and her inside pure white. There is an open gangway
extending the whole length, from the extreme points of
the after and fore cabins.

It is impossible for the pen of the most graphic describer
to convey anything like an accurate conception of the
beauty and perfection of the America. She can only be
seen to advantage when viewed at a distance, from different
points, by the natural and living eye. Under such
circumstances only can her symmetrical and swan-like
model be appreciated. She will proceed direct tp Havre,
France, where she will remain for a few days, for the pur-
pose of getting her sides painted black, and every part of
her fitted up in the most splendid style. Thence she will
proceed to Cowes, where she is also to remain some days
before exhibiting herself in the Thames. Mr. Geo. Steers,
the modeller and builder of the America, takes passage in
her to London, for the main purpose of being able to
judge, by practical observation, where rests the material
difference between the model and construction of English
and American built yachts ; and also to see which nation
will win the palm of superiority in point of sailing quali-
ties. Whether the America shall come off victorious is
yet a problem ; but be the result as it may, she cannot
but be an object of deep interest and admiration on the
other side of the water; and the elegant appearance which
she will make in gliding up the Thames to meet her com-
petitors must call forth applause on Mr. Steers, her
builder and fashioner.

She carries eight men before the mast, besides the cap-
tain, (Mr. Richard Brown,) first and second mate, and
carpenter. Her cabin and state-rooms will be fitted up
in a style that the people of Europe cannot but admire;
and her accommodations are sufficiently ample to enter-
tain a large company. The cost of the America, when all
completed, will be about 20,000 dollars.