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'rh off,ial aecounts of the last quarter's reveniue to the loth inst. have been published. Undoubtedly, with re- ference to the pritnafacie receipts of the year, we cannlot hoast of a very brilliant rssult, when the excess of 1824 over 1IS23 is no mole than 1,1843,0001., while the repay- ment from Au3tria, wvhich enters for an item iinto the re- venne of last year exehliivvly, amnounts to 2,So0,0001. The incon.e of each vear is its fdl!Ows I .23 ..49,216,05-2 1824 .51,400,02 Improvement . . ?XI,184:O4O If tl,is apparent surplus, therefore, be deducted froir. the amount of the Austrian composition for her debt of long standing to this country, vz. 2,500,0001., we shall find a (deitcit of 1,316,0001. upon the last year's net levenue, as compared with that,of thc twelveinoithi ending the 1oth of October, 1823. But it wouldl be uncandi(I to rest our observations there. The customs are the criterion of the foreign commerce of England, antl on them, notwithstanding, the reiluction of sundrl y dluties, ther e has been an actual increase of 318,9201. In the excise, which is the tcst of our home consumption, the decrease of 81,39t1. bears no proportion to the amoUitl of taxes abolished. lhe Stamps affbrd an increase of 417;0001.; the Pust-office an increase of 89,0001." The Assessedl Taxes have fallen off, to the extent of 1,907,0001., in the Year; hut the window and other duties being re(luced one-half, -will fairly account for even a more serious dirni- nution. Upon the whole, if, as we have said before, no very brilliant sr striking addition to the agreeate revemte be perceptible, on the olher hand the reductton falls greatly short of what might have been looked for from the abate- nent of so manv taxes; and therefore, instead of Ministers heing deterred by experience from a further trial of that conciliatory, salutary, and reasonable course, they must feel the strongest encouragement to prosecuite and complete it. |Vee had omitted to notice, that in the receipts of the last quarter must be reckoned the duty on oats imported in consequence of that grain having reached the importation prices; but that no calculatioci can be founded oH the per- manency of such a source of revenue.