The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-12 00:00:00

THE STA'

THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.

(tame • inteterietat. TAPIR.)
We have the satisfaction to lay before our readers an
account of the Produce of the Quarter ceded yesterday,
as compared with the pouding Quarter last year.
This acconiit exhibits a decrease upon the total Payments
into the Exchequer of 805,5981.
It must, however, be recollected, that this is the first
Quarter io which the Remission of the Defies lately re-
duced by Parliament has produced any cansiderable
effect ; and we have the satisfaction of knowing from ac-
curate information, that upon all the most considerable
Branches of Revenue in which no redaction of duty has
taken place, there has been an increase, and not a dimi-
nution, of Produce.
In the Customs there has been an increase of about
97,600!. notwithstanding the Repeal of the Tonnage
Duty, which might have been expected to produce
40,600/. or 50,0001.
In the Excise there has been a diminution of 819,2201.1
bet in that branch of It the articles of Malt, Belt,
and Leather, which, in the Quarter ended 10th October.
1821, produced 3,361,1931. have, in the Quarter just ex-
pired, only paid in 2,221,9781. making a-difference"(
1.139,2271. If, therefore, these branches of Excise,
which line been affected by reduction of daty, be de-
ducted from the total produce of the Excise, it will ap-
pear that there has beentspon the remaining articles an
Increase of 319,9901. • •
1 t may, indeed. besobereiiii,itbat die reftectien of eke
Salt Duty is sotto take plasejill the 3th of thauary : but
these eau be no doubt Mit thaLthe ex pee tatlo ael prneuri ng
the article much cheaper after that day, has iodueed the
dealers to limit their stock as teach as possible in the
Mean time; and, in feet, the difference of duty upon that
article has been no leer within the quarter than 79,2041.
It *mild, therefore,• appear, that is these two great
branches of Excise and Customs, which are the surest
tests of consumption, and consequently of the general
ease and comfort of the great body of the people, there
has been on all the articles not affected by Me reduction
of tate*, taken collectlvely, aft Increase of about 480,000/.
Upoa the Assessed Tates there has been • diminution
of 140,3041.; bat here it moths recollected, that though
the repeal of the Agricultural Horse Taxes took place
from the sth of April, 1821, the arrears which Bewail*
to be- paid in,weeld regent any very sensible difniqp-
tion in the next half year; and therefore the falling ai
of the Assessed Taxesetay be accounted for by this re-
mission of ditty.
In the Stamps there has been an increase of 49.283 L.
gad is the Past Dace of 18,000/.
The Land Tax appears to have produced 4441761. lees
than is the corresponding Quarter of last Year; which
may in somedegree haveen produced by Retiefeptioo;
but probably is chiefly to be attributed to this measures
taken of late for aceeleratiog the payments of Taxes
into the Exchequer, and which occasioned an increased
Receipt in the Quarters preceding the present.
' We have, therefore, in the general view of the state of
ear revenue, every cause for satisfaction and confidence;
and though it cannot be supposed that the distress
which has prevailed in some parts of Ireland, could
whollyfail is affecting the produce of the revenue in
that part of the empire, yet we have the pi to
know that the payments into the Irish Exchequer have
by no means fallen...* to the extent which might bare
been 'meet:id—the payments from the sth of Jnly to
the 28th of ' ember, having ooly•fallea short of the
payments in t e corresponding period by 61,3371., sad
that the whole diminetion in Ireland, from the sth of
January to the 25th of September. was no wore than
1113,6N1., notwithstanding the repeal of the Window
Duty, and the reduction of the Malt Duty.
ABSTRACT Or TIM NIT TRODOCR tar TIE agvance
GRIAT BRITAINACLUSITI or TUB AURA*. OF .WSIS
lIHTT-trir W 1 raotratn- IeTartRARS ANO'
QUA RRRRR INDIO OCTOBIR 10, IS2I, AND OCTODEI
10, 1822. SHOWING vii INCRICASE OR DiCREASS ON
race ARAD THBRLOP. •