Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-01-01
British Revenue.


year ending September 3Oth have been Ell 6G2 and
hegross expenditures 97O6 662. Thereceptsfrom
customs have been e23 O65lO being nearly double those
of the United States and bearing nearly the pro-
portion to the custom receipts of the latter country
do the aggregate value of importations showing that
the average rates of duties in the two countrs not
very different The British customs are about twenty
eight per cent of the value of the imports Ours under
the Tariff of 1916 were about % per cent Next to
customs comes excise being domestic duty upon
tain manufacturing and retailing branches of business
as spirits, etc. this yielded eli $4,000; next
the tax upon all incomes of ESQ per annum and up
wards yielding els 753O23 this is strictly direct tax
Next come stamps, yielding G7346,223, being tax
upon the paper upon which all notes. legal Instruments
etc. written printed, none of which are valid in
law unless made upon stamped paper. The land tax
yields G3,O99,02O and the Post Office earns a surplus
over its expenditures of G2930000, beingmorc than the
whole expenses of our system. This difference between
the British SYSTEM which more than pays its expenses
and ours Which does not arises from the different charac
tiers of the country where they performed one being
densey populated country, of limited area and foreign
and domestic commerce Of unparalleled magnitude-the
other embracing half a continent, much Of it sparscy
settled. The customs the only at least the main
reliance of the Treasury of the United States no form Of
inland excise of direct taxation having been rcSorcd
to or seriously contemplated by the federal government
Of the expenditures G28 726l83, OF two-fhs Of the
WHOLE goes for the interest and management Of the
national debt OF the remaining tlreeflths ga 800,
$50 goes for the Army, GlO,G65,OOO for the Navy,
G6848 3l6 for miscellaneous civil service and a.
3O4482 for the expenses of collecting the revenue pay
ing salaries of revenue officers keeping up coastguard
ETC. The consolidated fund comes in for e. 1856
this includes the Queens household, cabinet officers,
courts of justice PENSIONS etc. and embraces this year
9lI252O6 paid to Denmark for the abolition of the
sound dues.
It is striking fact that since 1850 the expenses of
all the leading governments of the world have increased
about forty per cent, and that Great Britain and the
United States have exactly kept pace Previous to the
commencement of the Russian difficulties, the British
revenues and expenditures had been regarded fixed at
about fifty millions of pounds sometimes exceeding and
sometimes falling a little below that mark. Since that
time they have never gone under seventy millions and
the United States revenues and expenditures have gone
from about fifty millions ofdoars to something like sew
enty millions In both cases there have been extraOr
nary expenditures but these extraordinary expenditures
are beginning to be regarded as the incidents Of growing
lures can be brought down again to the standard
of ten years since In ten years population has in
creased onethird- at least has been the ratio OF
our increase in the decades that have passed Our terri
oral expansion and our foreign has than
kept pace with our population. The expenses of our
army navy interior department. ETC., have necessarily
and inevitably grown, and they still too small for
what is required of them. A new charge upon the
IL IL
failure of the receipts of that department to meet its
penditures Few charges will be cheerfully borne
by the people Few things contribute more to the de
veopment of people in intelligence than cheap and
tain communication through the mails.
BG~THE ALBANY KN1cKERBoCKER says that Craw-
ford, the Sculptor, native of BayshannOn, Ireland
1t says We know that he native Of Ireland
and emgrated with his parents at an early age about
years. from Bayshannon, in the county of Done
GAL and the writer of this we'll acquainted with his
father in the City of New York thirty years ago"
Perhaps the Knickerbocker is right. We had always
thought that Crawford Irishman after the man.
ner OF Gen. Jackson of whom gentleman from Cork
remarked that to be he an Irshman only his
mother year in the United States before he was
born"
Mr.. LEAK.-The Washington, N. c.. Dispatch Of
the 23d, in its paragraph announcing the candidacy
Mr.. Leak on the Distribution issue, says that Mr.
Leak was once before candidate in opposition to the
nominee of the party but withdrew before the election
That is so. Mr. Leak once before candidate
and withdrew He did not then take up the issue thai
he now does. Once again Mr.. Leak candidate
this last time for Congress- He did ride the Disribu
ton hobby and he did not withdraw, but he was so
back beaten by over two thousand votes
Da~ Jim Lane p the notorious General Lane, 0
Kansas abolition notorety has not been kiled-is no
dead. What pity!