The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-08
QUANTITIES OF EXPORTED ARTICLES

Looking at the amount of customs duties on va
rious articles, unless set down tea and sugar
necessaries, nearly the entire amount of dutiessay
Sl0o0 600 out of $ll0,O00, ,O00-is derived from
articles of luxury; sugar. tea, tobacco, spirits and
wine. Timber comes in for almost three million
dollars, and brcadstufls and coffee, each for
little over S2O00000. OF the 5000 900 600 raised
on excisabe and customs articles, licences,
&C., SlOO,OOO,O 600 or may be set down to
wines and spirits alone, and S25,OOO,O0O to
tobacco; these are the items that come to the
revenue annually not the total cost Of the articles.
The duty on foreign wines amount in year to
some 600; on foreign spirits, to about Sl0,
0Oo 900; colonial spirits, S6,OOOOOO British spirits,
leXcise,) $4,000, 900 The malt dutv (excise being
IN the tax the manufactured article made in the
Kingdom 100000, 900; licenses (tayerns, &C., for
selling wines and spirits, So ,uG0 O00 and hops about
5000, 600. The excise duty on the very necessary
article OF paper, manufactured in the kingdom is
about s., ,000, 900 year.
Now, look at the position of the Chancellor of the
ExcheQucr. Some Exchequcr bonds will fall due
in the course of the coming financial year, to the
amount'of about three millions sterling; and looking
at the prospective revenue for the year there will
be deficit of rather more than that amount; say
f399000O. In this state of things he proposes not
any extra taxes to meet the amount; nor even does
he propose to pay off those exchequer bonds by ne
gotiating a loan. When the British nation wants
to borrow money there are plenty of citizens ready
to take the loan, and Mr.. n'lsraeh simply
says renew thls indebtedness, and throw the
pay day over to another year. lie has the utmost
coAhuetSe III tne continued prosperity Ol the cOun
try, ana IN increased means in future years. He
proposes TO raise million sterling penny stamp
on each check that is given to a bank banker
lie proposes to equalize the excise duty spirits
manufactured in the Kingdom, by raising the duty
ON Irish Whiskey from six shilin9s and sixpence a
gallon, to eight shillings gallon, tae same as it is
in Scotland and England, ....
70 literary and intellectual men it is a source of
some gratlhcatlun that gentleman, scholar and Il
map Of letters, like Mr.. D'Israel who has created
for himself high position an author, as writer
OF works of imagination, should prove himself a
statesman and tinancier of such transceGdent abil
ties. Next to the premier, he is the most important
officer in Her Maesty's Cabinet, and he is the ac-
knOwledged leader 0f the House of Commons
Compared Wiih such prosy and dull responsibilities
az Earl Grey, Sir George Grey, Sir Charles Wood,
and Mr. Sidney Herbe. he is man of great orig!
nal genius, indomitabe industry, and vast acquire
ments; while they are decent med,oerities, who
never would have been heard OF, but for certain
fortuitous circumstances Of birth, wealth and arti-
iicial position, D'lsraei has made himself by his
own eSertiops, and he Is to-day the abest man in
the British House of Commons, if not the first
statesman in Europe. Sir Robert Peel was an
ovcr-rated man, while Mr.. D'Israeli, up to
tho year of grace, 1853, has been under-ra-
ted in this country in 1852, when he was first
made Chancellor of the Exchequer, and / well
remember the surprise that the appointment occa-
stoned. But the little wiry man with curly locks
has shown himself somethng mare than novelist.
Affected wisdom may give its solemn sneer journals
may aai3, and Punch caricature, Benjamin DlSraeli
will live in the records Othis extraordinary age long
than many who boast proud titles, roll in wealth
and occupy high positions. The budget in the I.op
don Times of April 20th. is maSterly document.
and worth the time of reading by any statesman or
politician. ours, sincerely