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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2893, 24 May 1878, Page 3

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The fpllowing are the Government changes : — Lord Salisbury, - Foreign Secretary; Mr Gathorne Hardy, Secretary of State for India; Colonel F. A. Stanley,' Secretary for War; Ibbetson, Secretary to the Treasury; Lord Stanhope, Under Secretary for India; Lord Sandon, Secretary for the Board of Trade.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his budget speech, shows an excess of revenue of £860,000 over ordinary expenditure for the year. The one million deficit is to be met by twopence per pound extra income tax, and fourpence per pound on tobacco, and a dog tax raised to 7s 6d.

The revenue returns show an increase of one million over the March quarter of 1877. ;

At a sale of pictures nine of Turner's paintings fetched 41,500 guineas, and twelve , water-colour drawings 16,000 guineas. The Admiralty Court have accorded ijffipOO for the salvage of the Cleopatra. The herring fishery on the east cost of Scotland is likely to prove a failure, owing to the unsettled relations between England and Russia. The results are likely to be deplorable in Wick and other towns.

Successful experiments have been made ■rt Malta in rendering nugatory the effects of the Whitehead torpedo. The House of Lords was crowded in every part when Earl Beaconsfield moved a vote of thanks to the, Queen for calling out the Reserves. Obituary.—Earl of Ravensworth, Admiral George Evans, Sir Gilbert Scott, Sir John. Cathcart, Sir James Watts, Sultan of Morocco, Prince Lucien Murat. Dr Selwyn, Bishop of Lichfield.