The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-05
The Nntioual Rxhihit.

The statement Of the dinerent Cabinet Ministers
during the earliest moment OF debate-should the
question OF the speakership be settled In favor Of
Premier GladstOnewil DO forth In the following
facts relative TO the existing condition OF the British
natiOn:-
The Treasury returns Will show how the receipts
OF the Exchequer between April l. 1871 and SaJur.
day, November IT, amounted to go o43 oei, as COM
derived from the following sources:-Cust0ms,
fl2 900; excise, fls stamps GO OOO
f2442 OOO telegraph SERVICE fl76 600; Crown lands,
fls6.000; miscellaneous. g., 7S4, 081
amounted 10 IA s7s against ssS AS psS in the
fiscal year previous; and that OF the former amount
for sappy services vosed On p TeI Psrs
ment
The Board OF Trade returns for the month OF No
vemDer, 1871, and eleven months ended 3Olh Novem-
Der, the same year. snow the total value oil the ex
ports for the month amounted to ELS. SIS, 5l3,
against ale IN 1870 and 9l6, 2s7s2o in 1869,
f202, s5s, 77s. against &lS2 4e2,o25 in 1870, and
eta, 460, 252 In 1863
ber 1871 were f29 l09 744 against f26, 273 45O In
1870 and against eos 2s6 In 1869. The principal
increase In The imports were IN raw cotton sugar and
sneep and lam0s' wool. The increase In the ex-
ports Is principally IN cotton manufactures, cotton
yarn, Goals ana coke, cutlery. unwrOught iron and
steel, and woOllen and wOrsted manufactures.
The snipping accounts exhibit considerable &C
tivity in the trade OF the United Kingdom Tne
amount OF tonnage employed 10 the foreign and
coasting trades exhibits large addition b0tn iOr
the entries inward and the clearances outward.
The financial rerormers s viii attack the outlay of
the pensions list as presenting inviting points Tor
retrcnchment 1t seems that the annuitles, CON-
pensatiOn allowances, hereditary pensions and re-
iiring and approximation allowances paid by the
English government during the year 1871 amounted
to the s% show tS % sa
petua pcnsi0ns:-f400O year to the heirs and ue.
scendants Of William Penn forever; $4,000 10 the
Duke OF Scnomberg; 81 200 TO the Earl OF Bath;
f2 900 the heirs male 10 whom the title OF Lord
Rodney shall descend; 10 the Representatives
the title Of Earl Nelson shall descend $4,000 10 the
heirs male on whom the title OF Vlscount Exmouth
Tne accounts show the last payment OF $4,000 q
year to Man0Oth College.
course OF the year: among them those Of the Right
Hon. Ii. u. Addinyt0n, the Earl oil R0den, late Audi
tor General OF the Exchequer OF lreland Sir +. Pol
lock; VscOunt AvOnm0re late principal Registrar
OF the Irish Court OF Chancery; Mr.. HatcheIl late
Commissioner OF the Insolvent Debtors Court, Ire
land.
With regard to the progress OF the telegraph sys
tenn under the government management IL Will be
shown that while IN the financial year ended the
3Ist OF March, 1S71 the messages amounted TO
ss5O,177 those for the current financial year end
me smarter according TO the average or the preced.
Ing auartersJ VIII reach I2,4lo 726an increase or
tWenty.Slx per cent Inc L0tdI uuhpci VI olnCcS
open ON the 9Th OF February. 1870, wnen the bust
ness was taken over by the State was 1882, ana 1t
AZ now .O9S These 5,09S consisted Of 1921 postal
Ofces and 1907 railway telegraph offices. The lat
ter nave slightly decreased since the change, the
former number having been 1.s74. The great
AUGMENTATION mas been In the postal offices. winch
have risen from 1,05S TO 329l, those In the London
district having increased from III to SOL, In the
WEST of England and Wales from $40 to l,97y
In Scotland from l55 TO 391, and Ia Ireland from
122 70 500. ,
return OF the emigration from the Mersey curing
the year 1871 has just been completed by the officials
al that port for the information vi Parliament. The
paper shows That during the whole OF the past year
the total number o. emigrAnts leaving the Mersey
Tor The United States was 1S4.SS5, OF whom es,60b
we're English, 24S3 SCOTCH &C. Ala Irish aud 3d. 479
foreigners. A considerable Increase Is thus mani.
tested In the number OF emigrants compared with
the year 1870. The augmentation arises lsay the
OF "f0reigners,n while the number OF irish and
Scotch eIniarants diminished.
THE CONDITION or SCOTLAND.
Judging from present appearances the Scotch
during the present session, aud scotland likely to
have Q session, or mayhap. sessions to itself, As
Ireland mas had. Mr.. McNeel Card asserts
that the scotch lab0rer Is infinitely worse
on than his Irish fellow; that one.thrd-
w, an q million Of the laooring population
but single ROOM" Another exponent OF the mis-
cry OF scotland has just appeared. Dr. Guthrie,
an eminent scotch minister has made statement
a. meeting In Edinburg, upon the state OF the poor
These, ne says are eating, like cancer, the very
vltals OF the country; undermining that stone
which ne believes To be the true foundation OF
cety -nameiy, the hearthstone These laws nave
"iaugnt parents TO abandon their children. children
to abandon their parents, and brothers TO ABANDON