New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-11-06


the basis of human rights Whether tins industry
is taxed by Government | have not been aDe ."
ascertain. But 10 speak IN good earues', ana HO'
Ia say anything ef the consistency oil govern
mctt, which With one hand d!spense- Begging
licenses and with the other gives aims IN order 20
abolish bcgcary, aave you ever heard OF . tio t
prepssterous idea than this experiment OF abolish
ing b,qear, by tie giving OF aims ? In this expert
mcnt. which j. confidently continued, e-Oou,rJO
have already been sunk. IN order 70 subsdze lazi-
ness and exfnguisl the last sparz OF love oil soor'
in country which is lying vast. and whose capi-
tai Is proyerbially TIE city Of misery
Having dispatched the luxuries al eeDrrn' l.. ana
munifcence let O.. pass 10 the Nee -.aTle' oi TIE
Panel budget. The first care Of prudent manager
WHO his q revenue viii be 10 get hold Of ~ that -
to collect IT, HoE fully the Wis 'om OF this MAXIM
is appreciated by the Pspal Gove-nmeut, You can
Judge bv the fact tst IL pays S3s-l. l5i collection
expe SEES on total revenue OF Sl2 - 81. W ME
in ether countries she government. so beniGhtcd
that they treat this most importaGtO oil all nnahc'a
performances With niggardy parsnaoniousness' ana
allow only u per cent for It 10 France, ~ even as
little IS : per cent in England, TIE PaPal Govern
nent alone has more exalted idea Of IFS magni-
,udr. and allows ttiry-one per ceHt and fraction
What other country on earth can show an item IN
its budget which reads: - Misses rtGd for ne
/" souis If fhe trGroi,Hg faTcOLcciorsf' And II You
are ndnced to believe that this tender care tor the
welfare Of the officer, considers only the soul ana
forrets The body yoV may just take notice OF the
circumstance, that Count Cini, The State Com
lrller. obtained IN ESQ a modification Of hls CON
ilact with Government, by virtue Of which he
drew, under the title Of joint interest IN the
treasury control" 20 per cent of the import duties
that is, $500 C00-intO his own pockets.
must add that the credit which the Govern
nent has gained by its high estimation of the
achievement of collecting the taxes Is somewhat
a. .l.t 49, 100 s.s-a-I
some items which al least according to ny notion
of the fitness Of things, do not exactly fsl under
it-for instance. the daily allowances of tobacco
to the Capurhin friars, kind of pin-nOneT for the
Pope. which is not included in his civil list and
promscuous lot of donations and subsidies 10 cler-
Teal individuals and establishments.
Oftbe s, 600 900 which remains after dednctng
the collection expenses, the allowances 10 the clergy
and beggars, $4,000 90 t. the Pope AS Civil
list and So l9 COO TO the State creditors az inter
est; there then remains about ri,2oOOOO to be
disposcd Of. This is performed in the following
way: The army and the foreign occupation take
S2,5C0,tC0 and the police $4,000, making To-
eether 81 zoo 01D; while the highways are infested
by gangs at robbers. v h.ch are d0lly on the IN
crease, and levy biachmail from whole provinces
The prisons cost $500 0OO year; the roads SEQ
OCO: other public works, 'siO000G; the fine arts,
$50 coo; agriculture S3j, 600: The navy, S2O,71O;
Justice, $4,000; and public education So,,Oo1,
of which SG4, eco 60 to the Universities of Rome
and Bologna and if anything at ell, the remaining
basnce OF SZ4, youcbsat, to primary schools
The deficit for the current year is estimated at
$l,tC0C00. You ask perhaps if these tnancerS
in clerical robes LET things 90 on as the! do, with
out at least cndeavoring to obviate the recurrence
of the deficits: and, 10 be fair ! must say that
they never lose sight of this comsunmaton 50 de-
voutly to be wished. In the first place, they H.
crease the income every year by raising the faxes;
but this expeGitnt seems e. be OF No avail, Tor,
though the revenue has doubled in the last twenty
years, the amount of the yearly deficit is also
double Whit il used TO b. twenty years ago. Some
people say that This is putting the cart be-
lore the horse, and that 10 would BE- better
to curtail the expenses. which. by mysterious
process, always grow ahead OF the income. Per-
bars they are right, hut for conclusive demon
stIaton the materials are wanting, only the late
financial returns afford anything like detailed
the old ones, mp to few years ago,
having dealt only in grand totals with that lordly
Indifference, which says: - So much year re-
" ccivod. so much spent. so uch deficit Basic
" Details b, meath our notice.
Other expodients to make the ledger balance
have been found i'm entertainments upon the
revenue and sinking funds, and that wisest OF all
fnancering shifts, the coming Of base MONEY. The
nominal value of the copper coinage long snce ex-
cecded its real value by Sl,5o0,UOO. But these
holy men did not even hesitate to contaminate
themselves by touching the Inheritance OF the rcvo-
lutionary Government of lS4-. Two OF the lega-
cies left BY the Republicans were the imposition Of
a forced loan and the issue of treasury bonds In
IS49 three Cardinals Were sent to Rome to " reg
late" the State preparatory 10 the return OF the
pope: but reckless as they were IN abrOgatlng al
the other acts oi the Republicans, they chung Ia
those two requests, and after having issued such
Republican bonds TO tie amount Of 100000, ana
called in the balance of the forced loan which had
not vet been collected 10 the tune Of S0OOOO, they
reduced the value Of the bonds by 80 per cent, and
reI adated the forced loan altogether You see, to
save the exchequer they sacrificed their honesty
and all in vain
Ever since ls49, the Government has neglected
no orp.rtuIity of Informing its subjects and the
world al large, that this state of It's finances was
entirely owing 10 the revolutionary rule of ISIS and
lag II is true that the extraordinary aruamentS,
the war carried in the territory OF Venice against
the Austrians, md the defense of Rome, increased
Tie deficits by S26C0,COO; but the . lay-goyern-
nent, as they call it, has, on the other hand the
merit of having during lis eighteen months rule,
reduced the prlce OF salt abolished the dIsgraceu
puip excise and introduced into the admInstra-
ZION series of economies and simplIhcatiOns which
even now serve the turn Of the reverend rulers;
and while the average of the tax IL now 80 70
every ilhabtant and Was 50 30 before the rey0u-
ton IL did not quite come 10 % III lei, anu lci'
And If must not be forgotten that according To even
the old returns, ,he deficits commenced as early us
ISL, thet of ls47, the year preceding the - lay
Government" beng alone -, cl5,61l.
Nor has the Papsl Government the excuse of be-
ING hkc many others, thwaried in It's operations
h, REPRESENTATIVES, OF the people, parlaments and
chambers. Ii has II all its own way, for even the
mr., mise which the FIVE powers wrung from the
i,re of forming an independent board of financial
control. has remained Il dead letter. In l-i9, Plus
tx issued law, which kept this promise to the
cnr; Oue-third of the members of the Board were
to be appointed by the Pope and the other two