Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-09-02

e660, 600 making the total revenue for 1897,
E54, 486,657. The expenditure for 1897
consisted of the interest of the debt, exclud-
ing the sinking fund, at the same time in
Guiding the interest on Exchequer Bills,
amounting TO 820,239,347 the sum issued
by the Trustees of Naval and Military Pen
sions amounting to G2,6009; other perman-
ent charges on the Consolidated Fund,
amounting to G2,20O,OO0 which with other
charges, made the total expenditure for
1897, amount to E33, 260,O0O. But the sup
ply voted for 1897, including Army, Navy,
and Ordnance, being G19,069,000 the whole
of which not having been expended the
actual expenditure Of 1897 did not exceed
G52,690, 637 which deducted from the whole
income of e54 100000 left surplus revenue
above expenditure, excluding the Sinking
Fund, to the amount of E1,800,000; from
that must be deducted advances made to
publick works to the amount Of G667, 703,
ldaving an actual surplus revenue, above the
expenditure, of G1,l32,000. The House
would therefore perceive that he had con-
sidered the sum received on account of Ma
val and Military Pensions, as income on the
one side, and the sum paid as expenditure
on the other. Such was the statement of
the expenditure for 1897, and of the surplus
after the reduction of the debt. He should
now proceed to state his expectations for
1928. 1t gave him great pleasure that he
anticipated an increased revenue for 1928
above that of 1927 by no less sum than
100000.
The Cotton Factory of Messrs. Joseph
Clarke & Sons, in Manchester, Eng. was
HncfrOund hxy fro %ho IS I'LL, -
There was insurance to the amount of
932, 900 on the property destroyed.
$4,000 damages have been given in Eng,
by law, to an individual injured by bag of
wool falling upon him, which was thrown
from an upper room of a warehouse.
A "Pig Fever" has occurred at Isleworth,
England, in consequence of stencil from a
stye.
PORTUGAL. The London Sun of the l4th
says The game is up in Portugal. We
have news from Lisbon of the 5th instant,
and from Oporto of the same date, by the
arrival of the Truelove, which left that port
on the 9Th, and arrived off Dover yesterday.
The intelligence brought by this vessel un-
fortunately confirms the worst news from
Lisbon. 1t was expected when the True
love left, that the Marquis Pamela, Count
Villa Flor, Saldanha, Stubs, Taipa, and
others, would embark on the 9th, in the
Belfast steamer. and proceed for England,
where they may, ere this, have landed. If
all this be true, the general wonder is, what
could have induced the Portuguese troops in
Oporto and elsewhere to stand up for Con-
stitution which they betrayed the first oppor-
tunity that presented itself. 1t certainly
speaks little for the Portuguese people that
the soldiery were not better supported.
When Saldanha arrived at the army, he
found the men in the power of the Priests
they would not fight, but retreated from each
line of defence as Miguel's troops advanced.
ID ~ gaes army on the t6 W be n Te5
geance would have full scope. If the Por-
tuguese themselves can tamely bear the
tyranny of Miguel, it matters little to other
nations. When they expressed wish, or
attempted to hberate themselves, they re-
celved the sympathy, and even support of
this country. but when they refuse to assert
their own rights, it would be idle in us to
interfere. As nation, the Portuguese are
mIserably subservient to the Priests-even
more so than in Spain-and while they con-
tinue so bigotted in their minds, and SO de-
graded in their national character, there is
little hope for their regeneration till some
terrible visitation convulses the Peninsula.
Miguel has now assumed the tital as well as
the attributes of King, and reigns in his
lonely Court deserted by the Ambassadors
OF every nation, except that of Sardinia.
Sir Frederick Lamb, one of the most honest
and spirited Ambassadors that ever repre-
scented the Majesty of free people, has re-
turned to England in the packet. In anoth-
er column we have the details of the Lisbon
news. By tomorrow we shall probably
have to communicate the occupation of
Oporto by the Miguelites, unless the Con-
stitutionalist display better spirit than we
are disposed, under all the circumstances of
the case, to give them credit for.
Russia AND TURKEY. An official bulle
TIN OF the Russian army, dated from the
ramparts OF Tragan, Goth June, contains the
details of the siege of Brahilow, which sur
rendered after an assault; but the success
OF the Russians, according to their own
statement of the affair, appears to have been
dearly purchased. The bridges having been
deemed practicable, it was resolved to at
tempt DO take the place by storm on the 18th.
All the mines were to be sprung at once.
and Immediately after the explosion the
troops were to mount the breaches. One of
the mines, however, blew up too soon: its
explosion buried the officer who was to fire
the second mine, which did not blow IN
the third blew up, but amidst the clouds of
dust and smoke which arose on all sides. II
was impossible to distinguish the state of
the breaches. The bulletin saws, aThe
columns rushed forward to the assault. All
the officers and generals were at their head.
with the volunteers who had offered to be
the flrst to scale the enemy's rampant.
Those on the right In fho nun,bor &c ION