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

97,6131

326,014

140,00 C

4,616,356
1,342,559

6,646
442,520
97,572

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

417,610

12,714.14 t:.

1,171,41 g
184,225

- ,
8,308,90(7
4,595,635
12,904,541

This return has one distinguishing feature of a !noSt
cheerio:; description—an 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 tour, 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 the
lower orders than to anv oinaunition of means. It will
bear, in fact, no other construction, for activity rcigus inalmost all the departments of trade, and the wages of
labour in the manufacturing districts bate 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 Penn4ear;
has advanced 82,0001. on the year, and no less
40.0001. on the quarter.
The property-tax, which shows an increase of 106,131'
on the year, and a decrease of 89,1931. en the quarter'
may be said to have found its level, and to provoke no re_-
mark, except to hope that under circumstances of such
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
deficiency bills; only about 2,500,000/. 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
disadvareageous effect of the strange item termed "
cellaneous," which has no proper place in this account,
the increase on the year would have been returned a`
about 2,160,0001.

THE CHOLERA IN PARIS.—A history is hardly COn3*
plete without a p!ague, or pestilence, or famine, or sonn!
such wide-spreading calamity, on which the historian OD
spend the dark colours of his descriptive eloquence. Coll"
sidering that M. Louis Blanc had but the space of tell
years tinder him, he must have regarded himself as eery
fortunate in meeting with the cholera, which figures tier_
as a very respectabl pestilence. The carrying forth til;
dead, naked and uncoffined, in open carts, is an itnegt
offered
i as perhapssnodt
essi to
there
ht
slightly
esu
constructed,
ssst=t:eicuedo,
constant
esnodt
bodies
terribleine tts dl
often presented to us in descriptions of this nature; butt
bho hyailideiendneofhtp,e:id
danger of their cholera piled up in carts and tumbrils, in coffins so bast,l'i
n•
tents being poured upon the pavement. But the strange
etyheriartthloedr,
irbivieercr
reports which were afloat amongst this credulous and Pg'is;
slonate population, form the most striking feature in t• 11
picture. It was reported in Pars, as our readers
probably remember, that there was, in reality, no
lera, but that poison had been poured into the fountsilla
of the metropolis, and had been mingled with the wines °0
the flour; and thus it was that the people were dying. , 0
was dangerous to be found with a phial in the hand, 01 or
be seen sitting, without any ostensible cause, near one e •
the public fountains. A young man was looking intpho'
well; he was massacred. Another met the same fate,.l,
was leaning over the door of a dealer in wine and slot•
in order to sec what o'clock it was. AJew in the n' had
place was thought to have a sinister laugh ; they seare„.....
him, found a packet of white powder—it was camlor:....
they killed him. and set on the dugs to tear the body'
Blackwood's Magazine.
SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION.—If parents send theirjnold
dren to be educated by the government, they sh
ein
know this, that the education must be scriptural. 111beir
lies the government's duty and responsibility ; it's ~,,-ren,
duty to God, and to the people. To compel the r-,00
to send his child to your school, that invades the Parjwho
responsibility and right; but to sanction that perePve the
sends his child to your school, in refusing to gididoll
Scriptures to his child, to receive that child on eon, &IA
that you act on that refusal, is beyond your own duty of
oaaftth oesfree cwt
responsibility to God. It is to be a partaker of the boat'
the parent against the child for which you will be se e/3004
able unto God. This is the naked principle of the „ con,
of Education, and it is one in which no churehineuoten
acquiesce for a moment. The rev. gentleman then qr, 0
a passage from the Bth report of the conamissionelu're'
show that he had correctly stated their principle. c-7,ted,
gretted to say that when this s'atement was inves 181_1,ept
the aPlit'ois
it conveyed a meaning totally different from
ad it, ""
one. Many were deceived by it, and having re, ,
said, the board does not exclude the Scripture t.nrysor
verse is the fact ; they say so expressly. But when
t exel""
lated into plain English, it meant this—we do nou
_soot,
or prohibit the Scriptures in schools when parch 5%0
/heir children to be instructed therein. The rule
somewhat more lax than it was at the original coni.strncipir
of the board; but still they allow parents to pro i?l,‘l, wilte
children from being instructed in Scripture, and
not grant one farthing when tP the patron will not ac, the
in that assumed authority of the parent. What to
prinei tst
principle? ) why, that I am to acquiesce in the riF" ocer
an au horitY
authority of my fellow-man to exercise a
_diboi
his child, in my school, supreme to that cf God ; 'Leo,
to peril Iris immortal s,:til! Is this to keep your diiit
and nut be partakers in other men's sins ? wbo
pure. r"
to act as faithful stewards ? Is he an honest stew?...., 00
says, " I acknowledge that I and my children ot'looo,
rob my master, but I may connive at my fellow-seawe
• - the prinew
in doing so when they please." This is the
the National Board, and that on which they reqn_-;
he/
ministers of the Lord Jesus Christ to act.—Speec
Rev. R. J. .111' Ghee.