The Revenue-tables are deemed satisfactory in their manifesta- tions, though
opinions do differ on the point. There is an in- crease on the larger items for the year, excepting the Excise, which exhibits a decrease of 443,0001., but the increase on the whole is 235,0001., and it would have seemed greater but for " China-money " included in previous accounts. The principal decrease in the quarterly account is Customs (153,00014 ; but here also there is on the whole an increase of 281,0001., and it would have been greater if there had not been the surcease of the Corn-duties. On the other hand, the jaundiced eye of Protection sees that the accounts would have looked worse if much Legacy- duty had not fallen in during this mortal season, and much spirits had not been drunk, in lugubrious conviviality, as a preventive of cholera! The Revenue-accounts, like many kinds of statistical apparatus, are what you please to make of them ; except that in point of fact they indicate a revenue rising as the year advances.
