Star. — 1819-07-08 (London, England)

THE REVENUE. • . . itre yesterday laid before the Public the stetemen. of the produce of the Quarteias Revenue, comparing it with the produce of the corresponding Quarter, tonether with a statement of the Year's Revenue ending sth July, 1819, comparing it with the Year's Revenue ending on the sth of July, 1818. The following are some further details: It appears that the Total Produce of Customs, for the Year 1818, ending sth July, was - X 10,000,379 Ancl.for the rear 1819, ending sth July - ' 1u,499,407 Excess in favour of 1819 499,026 Total Produce of Excite; 1818 - - - 91,179,114 1819 - - - 53,186,166  Excess of 181 9 - - 2,007,034 In the Stamp Duties there is a decrease in the year of £13.5,501 In the Yost Office an increase of £68,000. In the Assessed and Land Taxes an increase of between 20 and £7.0,000. In the Miscellaneous a decrease in the year of £197,092. The increase in the whole year is 1x,5518,046; but deducting the decrease on the two articles specified, amounting to X 3351,663, the total increase on the year is, as we stated yesterday, £2,266,368, and on the quarter just ended £422,893. In the Excise Duties an increase hes taken p!ace in every article except Coffee, Soap, add Wine. In the article cfikßeer the increase is upwards of £200,000 ; in Bricks and Tiles about £80,000; in Glass above £llO,OOO ; in Hops above £200,000; in Malt above £720,000 ; in Printgd Goods above £llO,OOO ; in British and Foreign Spirits nearly £400,000 ; in Tea nearly 'EIC0,000; in Tobacco and Snuff above £50,000; making, as stated above, a total increase in the year of above £2,000,000. From tbe, general depression and stagnation in agriculture, trade, and commerce, many are at a loss to account for the increase in the last Quartet's Re. ,reissue, _particularly in the Customs, looking to the &Ming off which has evidently taken place For sorr e time past in all commercial business. The cause of this increase is not fiom a natural increase in the prosperity of the count, y (for all accounts say the contrary), but it arises from the new Taxes which Ministers are about to lay upon us, and which are generally to take place fiom the sth inst. Up to a late period in. the Quarter the Revenue had decreased, this the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER acknowledged in his place in the House of Commons ; the revival took, place in the latter part of the Quarter.— Upon Tobacco the duty is raised from 3s. 2d. to 4s. a pound ; the usual entries of this article are from 90 to 100,000Ibs. per week, but in the fortnight preceding the 9th June, the enormous quantity of 1,074,4621b5. was entered out of bond (in the port of London alone), for the purpose of saving the additional duty of 10d. per lb.; upon tobacco alone there is little doubt but at least 200,0001. was thus brought into the last quarter's receipt. Upon Sugar, Rum, and Wine, it was also expected that an increase of duty would have taken place, and larger entries than usual were made in consequence. Upon Coffee the duty is increased from 725. up to 112 s. the cwt. upon Wool from 7s. I Id. to 565. the cwt. ; and upon a variety of other things the duty is iareised by the new Customs Consolidation Act from 10 to 50 per cent. and great quantities of most w the articles liable to an increase of duty have been taken out of bond and the old duties paid, in '•order to save the-advance ; and in this way the Revenue has been increased within the last quarter, perhaps to an extent (including the increase upon hops, from the unusually great crop of last year), of not less than from £600,000 to £SOO,OOO ; if this had not been the case, the Revenue would undoubtedly have fallen off, from the existing distress and stagnation in trade and commerce; but the present and ensuing Quarters must suffer in an equal degree, by so much having been forestalled or paid up in advance into the Quarter just ended.  In alluding yesterday to the Report of the Corn-1 mittee appaiftted to inquire into the state of the Criminal Laws, we mentioned one consoling fact which it established :—that crimes of atrocious violence and inhumanity have been greatly diminished in this country. It appears from the Report that the number of convictions for murder, and executions, are as follow: