The Revenue tables, published on Monday, show an increase in
the receipts of 243,909/. on the year, and a decrease of 15,243/. on the quarter. The increase is chiefly on the Customs, and occasioned no doubt by the payments for Corn-duties ; the decrease is on the Post- office, which amounts to 301,000/. on the year, and 272,0001. on the quarter.
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt have given notice, that as the actual expenditure of the United Kingdom for the year ending 5th January 1840, exceeded the actual income by 1,572,792/. 3s. 11“., no sum "will be applied by them on account of the Sinking Fund." [It would be well to abolish these Commissioner- ships ; they are likely to be sinecures for a good many years to come.] Active preparations are already being made by Government for taking the decennial census in May in the next year ; in which some important improvements will be niade.—Globe.
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