Year ending Year ending 5th April 1849. 5th April 1850. Ordinary revenue, £48,490,002 £48,643,042 China money, 84,284 Imprest and other monies, 665,293 656,855 Repayment of advances, 427,761 553,349 ——————————— ——————————— £49,667,430 £49,853,246 49,853,246 ——————————— Increase in 1849, £185,816 —_Times_, April 1850. So that the increase in a year of extraordinary and unprecedented prosperity, as we are told, over one of unexampled and overwhelming suffering, is _only_ £185,000, for £128,000 of which we are indebted to an excess in the repayment of advances in 1849 over 1848. We care not to what this extraordinary fact is to be ascribed, whether reduction of duties, the continuance of distress, or any other cause. We rest on the fact that Free-trade finance and the cheapening system have brought the revenue of the country, _in a year of what the Free-traders call its highest prosperity, to a level with what it had been in a year of its greatest adversity_. History cannot, and will not, overlook these facts. The leaders of the Free-traders say they live for posthumous fame. Let them not be afraid. Posterity will do them full justice. The financial problem of the Free-traders is—“Given a cheapened nation, to extract an adequate revenue out of their unremunerated industry.” We recommend this problem to the study of the Free-trading Chancellor of the Exchequer. If he solve it, we shall assign him a place superior to Archimedes in physical—to Bacon in political science.