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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 38, 13 July 1885, Page 3

It is of interest ('says the St. James' Gazette) to compare the principal features of. the Budget introdiiced into the House of Conunona by Mr Ohilders vnth those of the first Budget of the present reign. • ,On the 30th June, 1837, Mr Spring Rice, then Chancellor of the Exchequer^ introduced the first Budget of the reign .of I Queen .Victoria, He estimated the inicome for the ensuing year at £47,240,000 land the expenditure at £46,631,415. Now Mr Chil.ders estimates the income of the coming year (on th* basis of ft fi vepenny income tax) at £85,140,000, and the expipnuitui*, exclusive of the vote of credit, at £88,872,000. In 1837 the Customs were estimated to produce n trifle over. 2l millions and the excise sera«thing ; less than, 14 mUlions.. The : actual provision for the 'coming year amounts to £100,072,000,; showing thit fn 48 yeiirs the income and expenditure of the Empire have more than doubled. A remarkable instance of equips lph£evity has dccnrr'ed m Stateir Island, U.S.,. where t a famous trotting horse, named Old Turk, died on the 6th of March last. His first race was run m , the year 1842 r RO that he must have been something like 46 or 47 years of ngb. At that time hn trotted againsit and beat a field comprising' sortie of the best . horses of the dny. About 12 yoars ago he.wns-strCnfiing at the bow of the ferry ; boat; Weßtfiold when Bhe V>lew up. He ( was hoisted between 30ft to 4Qft into the air, hut lanrlintr m the water^ with the hair senldcrl off his back, ho swam . asborp. The last years of liis llife were spent at the liichmorid - County Poor Fnrmv where. ,a ijuoinfortablo, fltall-* had 'bnen bnilt for him. .He. had ■lost, nonrly : all liis tectli, and lived upon hoilpd' food for some months bef oro his death.

A curious lawsuit, resulting from a tragic accident m a cemetary, has just been decided m Paris. A widow named Mme. Campy, accompanied by her young soi, went to P6ro la Chaise to offer up prayers on th« a^nniversiry of her husband's death, having a few days before had a atone cross placed over his tomb. . The workmen had, however, forgotten to put the;wreaths ofammortelles on, the arms of ,thei jcross^sp the bpy, .i a lad of 15, mouted^ilVe liioriumeiit' arid atteiriptod to placetth'dnsr m pbsition. SuUdenly the stone fell and crushed him to ..death oik his father's/tomb. The sorrowing mother claimed damages to the amount of £250 from the constructor of the monument^ but it was .urged for the defendant that .-the boy: was- the victim 6f his own imprudence, ;aha< that the rulesj,6f thecemetary forbadfe^ "any'inter • :f«r'ehce-' with" mphuments; --But •'•the ; court'xJecided'that'ti^iis prohibition did not .apply to familidjj wishing to ', tipmbs^^■.^r i;atta'c^) wreaf;^ to|,(Br6sSißS',--:and; , awarded the Iw^w:tb^ii^^iamoufr(i ; ;pf|j /.l^&[tom.;;' Iy^1 y^ 'I 1