The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-08 00:00:00

THE REVENUE

" The adstracts of the net revenue of Great Britain and Ire-
land, for the year ending April 5, 1842, have just appeared.
They form a cheerful contrast to the long succession of
" Flemish accounts" with which the whig-radical predeces-
sors of the present government habitually alarmed the public ;
and they must impress every body with a just notion of the
enduring energy and elastic vigour of the national resources,
under shocks and visitations so rude, so continuous and so
extensive as those with which they have been assailed, both
in their internal and foreign relations, ever since the close of
the year 1837.
• These extracts exhibit a tabular comparison of the produce
of the several great branches of revenue, in the years 1841
and 1842 respectively. By these accounts it appears that on
the year ended sth April, 1842, as compared with that ended
sth April, 1841, there has been an increase undcr the follow
ing heads, and to the extent here mentioned, viz
1. Customs

£175,205
422,188
90,000
20,000
281,743

2. Taxes

3. Post-office

4. Crown Lands

5. Miscellaneous

£989,83

And a decrease on these heads—viz.,
6. Excise
7. Stamps .

£155,427
123'589

850,821

But this surplus it will be seen by a decrease on
other small heads amounting iu the aggregate to 162,879

is reduced to " net surplus" of
Thi5687,941
specula-
tion.. summary moray offers a few points of interesting
Aae,„,j,increase of the annual produce of customs from
in 0'1:4024:i5r to £19,876,130, bespeaks a slight improvement
from tl2,s3eiga trade. The decrease of the revenue of excise
w„,.,.e„, y i.01;36 in 1841 to £12,464,069, is too trivial to
sbTwiue`g
aaiii,
actual diminution
of this small deficiency of £15,427
able articles idiminution of the consumption of excise-
able
beyond the operation in some particular classes
of these
But the decrease is the
and probably temporary causes.
£123,589 in the last e product of stamps, to the amount of
months, it is seere'rentapared with the preceding, twelve
under " Taxes', must be to account for. The increase
sanguine anticipations °followed to have justified the most
chequer of the growing increase
late Chancellor of the Ex-
scheme of additional assessitencrease to be derived from his
which were to be dealt 989 43
Yet, seeing the elements
yearly product, from £3,9B9Aatia ease, an advance on the
£4,411,619, (being an
increase of £422,188,) is perhaps it
corresponding ma t matter for wonder thanquarter,
i n
their sudden decrease from the
1841, of £71,000 odd.
still more The Post-office revenue, however is es
me ts
remark-
able anomaly in the history of fisca‘ ex-pefi
iar-a.lyzed re-
of its crippled—and we should have said
e months be_
Despite
sources, it had increased on the sth of said—paralyzed re-
sources,
this
its produce
vil,:l'
£414,030 (which it stood at on that day
xt,
90 1842, from
,000 ;—a yearly increase of
last
fore to £504
increase on the last financial year,
financial quarter has far exceeded. This latter exceshe•
the proportion of £142,000 to X 93,000, on the last ass is
smin
pared with the immediately preceding quarter. Still the
net quarter's revenue from the Post-office duties, being but,
£142,000, it is clear that the annual produce
lesc, at annot be esti-
than
mated, even on these favourable princip more
£563,000—less than one-third of t denies annual produce of
this branch under the old system oft.
For the same reason which we have adduced to excuse our
inability to enter into the details of the sta consideration them duiies de
fi-
ciency, we mnst, for the present, postpone
of the items under which the " miscellaneous" branch of
produce of income had increased, in the year ended sth inst.
from, £90,062 (at which it stood on the sth April, 1841,) to
£371,085 (a difference of £371,000 odd) ; or, on the quarter
ended same day, from £49,196 (its net amount in the corre-
sponding quarter of 1841) to £323,193 (a difference of
£274,067.) The resulting increase, upon tha various heads
already recapitulated, of the quarter ended sth April, 1842,
over the corresponding quarter, 1841, is £111,332. We
will only further observe that under the head of crown lands
there is shown on the year an increase of £20,000, on the
quarter of £lB,OOO, which suggests a yearly improvement of
£72,000. The net charge for the two corresponding quarters
stands thus.
Ending sth April, 1841
Ditto 1842
For the account of surplus we must refer to the table. epon
the whole we may safely congratulate the country on the re-
sults developed by these documents, which, after making all
deductions, stand thus—
ms he eon the year ending. sth April, 1842 .
Ditto on the quarter ended ditto ..

£687,94
111,33'

A dandy, a few mornings since, accosted the old bellman
of Pontefract as follows :—" You take all sorts of trumpery
in Tour cart, don't-you?" " Yea, jump in, jump ill."