Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-11-17

From Bells Weekly Messenger, of Oct. i.
Il is with great pleasure that we are enabled
to assure our readers that every branch OF the
Revenue, except the Stamps, has been in gra-
dual progress of increase during the last SIX
weeks. We have seen fhe weekly accounts OF
the Customs and the Excise; and we can state,
therefore, with authority, that the late weekly
receipts have been equal TO any which occurred
during the corresponding quarters OF last year.
The deficit upon the whole quarter will be, be-
tween three hundred and four hundred thousand
pounds, but certainly below four hundred thou
sand pounds.
Under such circumstances, there can be no
room for dependency 1t was to be concluded
that the whole year would exhibit deficit, as
compared with the corresponding quarters OF
the year 1925; and the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer considered that this deficiency would pro-
badly reach the sum Of two millions 1t is con-
solatory, therefore, to know, that the deficit
willnot exceed fifteen hundred thousand pounds.
Now what is this in revenue Of iity-one mil
lions?
There is no foreign intelligence of any kind,
for all the articles of this nature which appear
in the French or German Journals, are either
mere ignorant and fanciful conjectures or di.
rect fabrications. There is this main differ
ence in the character Of our newspapers and TO-
reign journals. From the general good sense
and current information amongst our own coun-
trynen, plain downright fabrication would
Immediately be detected, and would reduce the
journal which should contain it TO merited con-
tempt On the other hand, in France and Ger
many, there is SO little of political information,
and, generally speaking, such defect OF good
sense and right judgment, that the journalists
have matters all their own way, and may iabri-
cate and invent at discretion. Upon this part
of the subject we have therefore nothing TO OBJ
serve, except that we more than suspect that al!
we read O! Greece is false, that all we read O!
Russia is false, and nearly all from Spain and
Portugal. If the Greeks are saved, ii will not
be by their own arm. Ferdinand is not pa
triot king, but he is certainly not Nero. And
by all that we can learn, the Emperor Nicholas
is well-intentioned Prince, with much less am
bition than might De expected from his youth
and power, and with sufficient moderation and
good sense to take his rule OF government from
his Cabinet of Ministers.
ningen are still very melancholy. The number
of deaths, which, from the 9TH to the l4th Of
September, was l42, increased in the following
week; from the 18th to the 2lst, TO us. The
great disproportion between the number OF me-
dical men and that Of the sick, is the cause that
the greater part of the latter remain without
any medical assistance whatever.
The new Infirmary answers the expectations
that were formed of il: the number OF patients
received amounted, on the goth September, TO
275, all persons of the lowest class, none OF
whom had died since the 10th. The number
of deaths up to that time was only II, OF "hom
five were pretty far advanced in lie.
The accounts from Friesland respecting the
disorders prevailing there are also very unfavor-
able. AT Sneek, town of 5000 inhabitants,
90 persons died in the month of August, and
e8 from the LIST to the 18th of September.
In Woudsend village with 900 inhabitants,
4e died in so days.
In Friesland, as well as in Groningen, they
complain Of want Of medical men to attend the
sick, and also of persons able TO attend as
nurses.
St. Petersbuygh, Sept ll.-The news from
Georgia, brought by Count Samoylof, Abide
camp to the Emperor, does not yet afford the
government sufficient information to discover
the motive Of the incursion made by the Persian
troops into our territory, to determine the
nature of this attack. I;appears, however, that
we ale more authorized to see in it the effect OF
fanatical impulse, which perhaps the Schah
of Persia himself may not have been able to re-
press. Meantime the troops Of the Sardur OF
Erivan, which had crossed our positions, ad-
vanced but slowly. On our side General Var
maloff was collecting his army, and only wait
ed for the junction Of all his troops, 10 COM
mence operations.
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