The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-12 00:00:00

THE QUARTER'S REI'EXIT.

[FROM THE molten.]
Produce of the Revenue of Brett Britain in the
Quarters ending on the 10th of October in the follow-
ing Years, viz. :
Taxes belonging to the 1819. IS:?0. 1531.
Consolidated Fund .(9,331,287 510,938.109 211,339.007
Temporary Excise 582.270 faiti.l64 1,139.377
Annual Taxes

11.434.7 M 13,190.94)3 I4.040.;1)3
October Querter, 4830 ...... 13. 1914,0t1.5

Improvement aq compared Kiththe
October Quarter, 1630

October Quarter, 1821
October Quarter, ISI9

Improvement as compared with
the October Quarter, IMO, be-
fore the Additional Duties of •
Three Millions were in WI col-
lection 0.,583.09T
IItGE.
Total Income of Consolidated
Fund in theQnarler ending 10th
October, IWO
Charge 9 923.001

Excess of Income . 1,3113,29 t;
Total Income of Conso;idated

Fund in the Quarter ending 10th

October, 1621 .
Charge estimated at 10.0(10.001

Excess or income

From the above tug st satisfactory statement, it ap-
pears•that the improvement in the Revenue of the
Quart r just ended, as compared with the correspond-
ing Quarter, lan year, is 910,92t4/. : as compared
with the same Quarter in 1:419, 2,:iti1.5,997/. But as
the additional Three Millions of Duties were not in
full collection then, but have been in full collection
since, it is proper that one quarter of the Three Mil
lions, 750,000!. should be deducted from the improve-
ment in the

Quarter, 1819
Deduct

1,4.13,e9;
Hence, then, the improvement in the October Quarter
just ended, as compared with the sameQoarter iu 1519,
is no less than 1,835,9971.

The improvetnent as we hare before stated, in the
Quarter just ended. as compared with the Quarter in
IS2O, is above 840,000/. This improvement is—in
the Customs, above 150.0011/. ; in the Stamps about
50,000/..t hat the greatest is in the Excise, whirls
may be stated at from 6 to 790,0001.

Abstract of tlte Net Produce of the Revenue of
Great Britain (exclusiveof the Arrears of War Duty on
Malt and Property), io the Years and Quarters ended
10th of October, 1920, and 10th of October, 1 zr.! 1.
'hewing the increase or decrease on each head thereof.
[Filmy TIM NEW TIMES
•
Years ended link Oct.
ISVO. 1821 Inc. Dec.
Customs .. 8.710.10 8.703,503 19,700
Excise . 20,455,308 f 4.171.383 17,143
Stamps .... 0,115,491. 6.1141,950 31,301
Post-office 1410.000 1.331,009 113.900
A ssessedTa xes 0.279.347 0.107.777 19.190
Land Taxes 1,207.030 1,217.836 10,220
Miscellaneous 300.338 207,954 81,384

60,013,810 450,52ti.1401 79.720 194.729
Deduct increase 79.720

Decrease on the Year.... 113,009
Quarters ended 1011 t Oct.
1610. 111 Ine. Dec.
Customs .9.070,663 2.1444.131 173.54 S
Excise 7.631.911 8.119.116 697.103
Stamps
Post-office 373,000 $41,1.100 33,000
Assessed Taxes 760,570 793...31 31.936
Land Taxes.. 174,511 207.451 31.939
Miscellaneous 71,641 01.213 10.410

13.184,643 14,022,912 1350.1%44 43,420
Deduct Decrease

Increase on the gnat ter . . 837,266

GOVCRN3IENT OFFICE:4.-1n pursuance of the deter-
mination come to by Government of considerablr re-
ducing the various Public Offices, orders have been
sent down to the Custom-house for the making up of
the accounts of numerous officers, preparatory to their
reduction. It is stated that a number of persontme to
be discharged, and that the salaries of those filling
situations will be ittaterially rednced. The Sxcise-1
Office, it is said, will shortly undergo a similai enduc-1
Lion ; together with other Public Offices. • • ;
Extract from the Agricultural Report of Berwick-
shire, fur September, from the Edinbargh Star :
On the 12th of September it rained from six a. m.
till noon, and in the afternoon there was a shower,
with several loud peals of thunder. This was• the
only day on which the Harvest work met with any in-
terruption. On several farms the corn, was all cut by
the ► lth ; a great many concluded from the 13th to
the 19th, and by the end of the month it was almost all
in the sheaf ; and in the lower part of, the country
nearly all in the barn yard. The anticipations of a
, late harvest, and an indifferent crop, which were en-
tertained by many, so late as the middle of Jaly, are
completely frustrated. The wheat is allowed to be
above an average, and universally of tine quality:
and from the quantity sown, one-third More bolls than
usual will come to the market. Beans and early
sown barley are a fair average, but the latter, where
sown late, falls short of a full crop. Peas, owing to
the season, exceed their early proiuise. Oats, uts all
good soils, though generally shorter than ordinary is
the straw, turn out a full average. There is not one
sheaf of any kind of grain damaged by the weather,
either in this conntkor in the rieinity. Turnipsin ge-
neral have a fair appearance. Potatoes ate ,good
quality, but short of an average. crop ; they, kowevor,
improved greatly in• the course of the month, anti He:
. .
still increasing in bilk.

LONDON:

FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, IS2I.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 771 78 both for
Money and the Account ; and for November 7SU.
The market continues to look np.

A Ministerial Paper of last night presented us with
an °cline of the produce of the last Quarter's Re-
venue, and another journal of the same description has
this morning favoured us with some additional views
and details. In another column we have inserted the
whole of the former statement, and such a portion of the
latter as to convey a competent notion to our readers
of the state of the public finance s, or rather of the
representations of it which the iinisters think proper
to exhibit. In making up an abridgment of accompts
that are complicated and voluminous, every one ac-
quainted with their nature know that there is little diffi-
culty in giving it a colour, according to the accompt-
ant's wish. It is the lot of few, of very few indeed, to pos-
sess the clear discernment and indefatigable persever-
ance which are united in that admirable guardian of the
peoples' rights and property, JOSEPH WU E. It is not
easy to unravel the web, to detect the artifice, or to ex-
pose the gloss with which the returns of such a Revenue
as more than fifty millions a year may be mixed up.—
There is no doubt the usual portion of dexterity em-
ployed to make this Quarter's produce appear as flat-
tering as possible. With this allowance, which must
be admitted by the advocates of Ministers themselves,
N ince the artifice is obvious in some of the comparative
statements which their official agents have presented,
it must be acknowledged that a considerable, improve-
ment in the Revenue appears to have taken place, even
exceeding that which we mentioned on the authority
of our Exchange reporter yesterday. Acconling to

the statements to which we ;divide, the amount of the
last quarter's produce exceeds that of the correspond-
ing- quarter of last year, by no less than 537,2641.—
This is certainly a very weighty sum, and it looks the
better, because the largest portion arises from the en-
crease of a voluntary branch of taxes, by the aug-
mented consumption of articles which people had
the option of refusing. These articles are such as are
arranged under the head of Excise, and which, ac•
cording to this account, exceed the produce of the for-
mer corresponding quarter by upwards of five hundred
and ninety thousand pounds. This is unquestionably
a favourable symptom. It is pleasing, as a token of
encreased ability on the part of the public; it is an in-
dex of an increase in their comforts and enjoyments.
This is as it should he; and it arises from that alter-
ation in the relative valne of money, by which the
wages of workmen and the resources of the people in
general, enable their possessors to apply their incomes
to some of the little luxuries besides the necessari-s of
life. With an income of 30s. a week, the (artily of a
labouring man, when bread was eighteen-pence the
quartern loaf, and meat was nine pence or ten pence
per pound, paid about two-thirds of his wages to the
baker and butcher ; but at the price of bread and meat
the beginning of the last quarter, their expense for
similar articles, if they went to a cheap market, would
not much exceed a third. They would at least have
seven or eight shillings saved, which they could ex-
pend on other articles they desired; and hence the
Revenue of the State from the Excise duties on
~those articles, as well as the comforts of the people
have ircreased. The statement of the last quarter's
revenue we would, therefore, always have those gen-

tlemen keep in mind, who had been repeatedly telling
us that the high prices of the necessaries of life were
not injurious to the nation. Little as these gentlemen,
the agricultural gentlemen we mean, may enter into
our feelings respecting the comforts of the labouring
classes, we truly sympathise with those of their frater-
nity who have.suffered from the late reduction in the,
price of agricultural produce. They, however, being
gentlemen of influence, have means of relief to which
they may resort. They may urge their landlords to re-
duce their rents, and the government their taxes, so that
their produce may come to market at what they call a
fair remunerating price. But much as we feel for their
ditficuhies, we feel still more fur those of the great body
of the people; and finding their circumstances improve,
we rejoice. The Cit.isceLt.oa of the EXCIIEQCER
also mutt rejoice on the same account ; and se trust
that in his future measures of finance, he will consider
the source from which the surplus of the present quar-
ter's revenue arises, and remember that the people con-

tri me won cheerfully and largely m the State when
•heir domestic 'circumstances are readered more com-
fortable and easy.