The Express. — London, England, 1852-12-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY e osatrand commercial emerracies which might arise, ier, e should then be able io free commerce and ma ci• hre:s from all restrictions He should not trouble the tu I w o. • f thee hut or ly add that he should TOM aay increase of talatioa, against o n I mo • sea the appropriation of the 400,000 r., which °L td to I te m been applied to public works; ' 64 bet i f the eight hen. gentlemen' said that he did soot inten d to double the house tas, bet only to 'stood the o lOU f ', o n why they were all of one mind. (Cheers looichter.) S,, E BE 'RING defended the budget in principle sad mt S regard to meet of the details. He was for entire supsol of the malt and hop duties; but would accept the contra mat mit j. (MAHAN( and Mr. Mllituote roes together ; and Es 'illation being named by the Speaker, held his The house, howem r, loudly called for Bit James, ;nd Me. Ill•Mahon, after • slight resistastee. giving way, g m rigid how gentleman spoke as follows have to apo• wee to the boa. and learned gentleman for interposing Waive him abd the house. But I will detain the house for m short a time as pomible ; sad I cannot proceed whloist anpo g that I shall r ndeavour to follow the eassiple of the hw baronet who last spoke, both in the tone and the ,„,,, er in which he has addressed us. (Cheers.) I as *slowly obliged to the house for calling on me ; but glide I am never enabled to address this house with that m emo :Laity and silf.possession I should desire—and hating with the grea.est attentiim to this protracted dio I WO bound to say that the more I his,. listened the more I am lost in mutation. (Hear.) I base listened this evening with great care to my hoe. frond the moister tor Monceau.. and I am sorry to report that I .annul understand the view he is disposed to take me • JeelliOn. (Laughter on the ministerial benches.) My bon friend says that he is a great friend of direct taxation, a nd yet he object' to the house tan ; and, objecting to the L -se t&I, be is yet willing to diminish the exemption of thou house t and to bring down the exemption from 201. 1,. 101. Imineelliders. Again, he says that he has the gt,atest posallele respect for the public credit, and that he to. the most SOWN desire to retain the revenue in a pio us tom sad ilmarishing condition, and yet he w willing to pat an end to tt e customs and excise duties—to vote for the repeal of the malt tax. (Mr. Hume: No, no; I did not ray that.) I understood my hon. friend to say that he was milieu to vete for the repeal of the mut tin, and he is willing also to vote for the total repeal of the assessed tine~—(cheen and laughter)—aud, although he would de an this, he would only propose one pet cent. on property „a i nt one, which he thinks would be sufficient to keep hob with the public creditor and to ply all the expenses of thou . state. Now, it is difficult to &scums a budget, and rape snap a budget so ample and so remissive as that of the pee•nt Chancellor of the Exchequer. But the matter is la more eomplicaud; my hon. friend has produced a rival e n jg e t, and, notwithstanding all the difficulties permuted by the government in reference to the income Me, my b ee n. friend interiecU a mill more perplexing scheme to proceed on the principle of capitalising all feel:Mee. Bat t h ere is still another ohetaele in our way At the commencement of this discussion it was guile:stood that we were to dime*/ thi whole of the Isel,ret, sad that was to be the distinct Mau.; hut it seems to ins that the answer given to the bon. and gallant gentle man the member for Westminster by the Chancellor of the Etchequer h-is more or less changed that issue. (Cheers.) the question distinctly was this—sball we or mg, for the purposes of the present budget, consider • dinar in the house tat is expedient? That change, ea prep vied by the coverument, embraces both doubling the xmiiiint and redoeiag the exemptions from 201. to 101. t 5o•;. sad that was the nose which we were told by the rummest we were to try. But the right hon. gentleman the elating, if I did not misunderstand him, told us that is us , no leogef of any moment that we should agree with th, vermin, nt in reference to doubling the amount of the t r.e tax—that it was only asked of us to soy aye or no to the question or the extension of the area of taxation with ',femme to the house tax. Am I eurreet, then, in infer. rum that we ale only asked to erwaseat by this revolution to the 'suasion of the area from 201. to 10S. hostess, and thane are not to dimwit' the queetiou est doubling the amount ? (Chen.) I would very much like, before pries .l further, if the right bon. gentlemen would say stetter" in discussing this matter 1 am to a crow the wage bee ia that way? (Loud cheer.) Toe CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER —ln awn•rmp thie rather informal q•eatlo•, I am, I hope, sot preelelaie spiel( from speaking a•bsrq•ently. (Hear, hem) The taeta are thear—• ho.. and gallant member, enmmasieatio• with me, this evening made • which had been made before„ that sufficient no r eep:aint, to of the measures of the goverment had sot been given t • the country. and that suiest time was not being gillten ti 1 bate th. it merits. Various representations In pe r men Sumo opposite and from my friends on my area nJr had been presinusly made to the same effect. owed, in ronweur Dee of the goverurneut not having gl &Laird time, and of there being, es they espreeed, a Gamy part tuck's., the debate prematurely, that the proing thine to do woulil he to adjuura the debate. Under then termagants's, I did say they ought to take net, menders. bee the position is shish the government WM placed. We wire forced to bring forward then measurre at a period of Le yin of course most inconvenient ; but there wester the ambled wish on sue part to deprive the country of a proper period fur cossideration, ors restrict the debate in this house. But we did think, under all the circunteisse of thecae, the has ought to have come to some rapid dia. ruse eathe subject; end as I have said publicly te IM boa. sad plias% Min'Jer fur Westminster this emulag„ there WY SO far as we were coacenird no objection to use. row es moth as passible the wen on which the vote Of the home shoal , ' be taken, provided we eould have • vote. I ask the right hos. baronet to look to the solution whisk is before the hoses, sad w I. ich I refer to because my his, frail the member Ike Mootrsso has said they if we sine et wow we should &Per the *welsher. The right he.. bones will Swerve that the Stet resolution certain em• Moe with respect to the assent of nit* ow houses, hut that it dose coatain a meet important miscipie, namely, that the area el the famines should be extended. (Loin sieisterial era's) This beteg so, I naturally said that a sot important tote would be taken on the first molars*. Led that *gun Is the answer I have to give to the right baronet. (Loud miaisteri.il cheers.) sa J. GRAIRM then went on to observe that up to that sourest the chute budget had been debated, mid the go o•reseat had staked their existence inn the sossineks; as wee it possible to narrow the was, the ikons of Shin aught mate a deficit of revenue. Its peerdai. drathine. to dieters the whole Wessial sabson reviewing t 1 principles open which it WM •••11611Witell n nal the MI& Mr in which the three tarred@ elkied ft have brahrguni by meat Impelatios were delis wish. SO Wes anardwit the prospective views annosuseed by the sit• tsetse that, stripped of the repeal of the rah tn, the budget wet of as ordinary ebeneter. With nap* to the dormer, he had invariably opposed a tansies of any put of that tag, and he ammonia various reasons why MIA retiree would be of little or no advent's, be sew macro or producers. The hon. member theu proceeded -1 rid now, with the permission of the hose, pass as Is soother topic on which I hope the country gentlemen wen forgive me if I speak to them as a friend. (Loud cr= "Oa -) I do not know why the landed interests ab doubt my friend hip, hut if I despair of an woman* to prove to them the temerity of my rootless, I at leen ban greet reliance on their reason, sad I will pet the =MIN b. Lre team with irresistible force. The pint to whieb 1 twil Mist to refer is the Evanson'? Loot Comindoolsn. at I rest be parvenus' to my that thou. I have always opposed the trustee of local hardens to IP iniorniated fund, yet it ever them was a palatal furl that es. Ser•joll to the landed intoner, end if WIN thew ▪ i time elan it should be essiatained—that limed k the earhiquer loan fund, and that time is the 1111N1110. ;Choir,) I think it is a most legitimate appals/ ad public money to local purposes, and as the Isms Heels le road ',Mob dies loot eon the pin* at large oltl law *hates!, to their detriment mdiendesatage. It is I 'Weise sum of 360,0001. a year *hie le lest this 1 .c.onito from time tome ti, and Ibit WPM 1/_O ll l l sod these laws ha v e h e r s fond la ha BPI it thee iscrests. ((shem.) Weald yes ewer me jaw ea crud to you the porpoise te whisk thew Imes have beer ledthed, sad then you will U. able a Pap for yourselves whether I a right in reykig On the works— * hit of which 1 am 'born is dimwits as aided by this fund—as of great local importance ? If the assistance is withdrawn the mare y required to can thews will have to be draws frets the pockets of the obsery emitlegoes. I am about to read from a which Ms bees presented daring the present yobriril tai divide the works into them which are fur the bulk ' of the lead and noes which are for that of Win ad town. With regard to the hued, they comprise n`v , ., drainage, bridges, nada tailroadi, collier= ass limo gentlemen will aloe geseamber bow MIA • burden on the county rate* are the lunatic asylums, kW "htte. leacga, public Santiago, and, above all, wider the ^•w POW' law, the wain and enlargement of workingman. I.e which else a sum of 1,100,0001. has been lent by Ws fond. (Btu, btu.) Another matter relating to the m ho of the pnor is emigration, and ens ato parishes htit been assisted by loans In carrying out that (Hear, hear.) New all the works I ham tuned have bees aided MINI this hod. Stop that fond, sad as the greater portion of the woke war coatisee to he carried a to meet the Posh demad Ise thew, they will require • great sacrifice, dal" SO a pew Own Biala, or by borrowing on terms by se mum 110 These (Cheers) Now I Wotan to the cities mid Wain weals comprise the building of chorine, the weeks of waterworks and artworks, the haproverwrit w cities and owes, harbours and dads, baths and eininkinses—Ml purpse s of mew local immerlasee, and without the means ' , tonsil'd by this fund on nosy esendass it would he sh. , letely impossible to bas marled Warmest (Hew) Bat it a said that the present state of tb market sot render such advances esemerey._. for the meanest it may bests ; hut the feed hes he operation fir 30 yeas, mil it may be in operatic* for 30 years to n 'a , e; and it will he observed that the fiellities offered for oiwyreent, his been such as no private tender would Mehl ( , beers.) There has been us los on three trans- Mtism ; but en the:contrary thi r.• has bees a gain. Why when dieturb the fund (Chests.) I will appeal to hue. g othoten who have been mammas% with ektersinent ; and •ii n the right hen. gentleman himself, who has only been tot • renpirstively short time is the high oar be li 1 . 04 oft , n have f e lt the eovissiesee of the we, is era this fund is inseaged. The government have ceestaslly hien tamed by torsos which have a strung local Mora* t ? , ' 'n al', toms f o r the improvenunt Of t i Le tossup. The answer the goverarest sirup, M'e cannot inter fere. You must go to the Leer f :fnersisionere. If yea have a pod ease, yin erdil antand nom, we cannot Interfere." (Hoer, he n.) no room .yotetu Las also beta found to be • very essmendtel one, sad I don't Wok it possible for a fund so useful as I have ideestileed It, to be plated is heads mere waleftembable. i I seer lime it has been opened there his bees a gratuitous matinee von it by moss of the OM emiseam to provost l the el empisles. I will reed the acmes: Lord , =firmhiked, Mr. Whitmire, Mr.Lecks,l Laud Peasiesse, Mr. Leberathere,'Mr. Thomas Sarin, Kr.' Warbeetes, sad Mr. Orme. (Cheers.) Could it possi ble he pima in more unemoptionable heads ? sad why thseilhee will the Chancellor of the Eacheituer lay violent Weiss it te make up a &Sammy whisk he has Mewl( meted by tampering with two great branches of our re- Mew, the malt and tea duties, which yield la minims annually, or nearly one fifth of the revesse of the coluttry ? (brad cheers.) Yes, the right his. gestieems, though he has • direr halanwe In hand M. 1,600,0001., proceeds to tamps with t" brambles of rename Utilises ; to Kelm et too which he thee ewes, he dares to lay violent heeds wpm this lean, and leaves himself no surplus whatever erupt the repeystent of same previously lest. (Hear.) As - 1 peal haa bees made width has not yet been enswered„ but which I hope will be aasweved be fore the elm of this debate. I see am right hisa. umlauts the President of the Board of Coatroul (Mr. Berries) in his plant, than whom to is so guitliman in the home who has had ce left an experience with the Oneness of the anntry, or who, I nay believe, understands all the minute due& ef the embalmer half so well. (Hear.) But I ask him, after his lon experience under ditr•reat administrations, has he aver known a budget opened at a period of general prosperity, with a surplus of 1500,0001. available, sad yet that pro posed to create in the Nut year a surplus of only 1 400,000 L, and on the second year, taking the most asaguine calculation, ;it surplus of no greater amount, the surplus in either rim being mahatma upon die house's permission to appropriate the repayment of the loans ? (Cheers.) And I ask the right hes. gentleman whether he is prepared to recommend the home to pas. this budget which leaves no real staples whateverodad which it has been stated by the right bun. gentleman (Mr. Goulbari) will shake the credit of the country to its very fuendatiour ? (Cheers.) I hope that before the ease of this debate we shall hear the right bon. gentleman's gepinions upon this subject. I shall not trouble the house upon several of the points which have been dwelt upon by hen. gentlemen who have preceded nee. I remember well a soot& made by t'...e right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the Toone of direct and indirect taxation. The right hoe. gentleman laid this down broadly—that direct taxation, with large exemptions, was auntie:lloos, and that (for, alter this, it was impossible that I could ever forget it), without large exemptions, direst taxation was impossible. (Cheers.) Now, let us try his plea by both these prin ciple,. Has be materially altered the exersep. lions from the laces.. tan? (Hear, hear.) The first great 'empties is Ireland—that is an existing exemption. Now has the right hon. geed/ man, aecoeing to the striated rules of equity, materially altered that ex emptioo ? Ile proposes to tan loads and salaries is Ireland; to leave realised property in land sad all charges on Wad free from legation, and not to chugs incomes arising from trades end professions. Ile prime", to do that which even in his ardour for direct taxation ths hon. member for Mon trose thinks somewhat severe—in the same year, in the same budget, es I at one stroke, to bring down the ex empties" from the property tom from 150, to 1001., and also to extend the house tee from 20f. to 101. Now let us try this—and, recollect, this is the greet scheme for levy ing taxation so as to do justice to all parties and to names Inequality. (Hear, hear.) Take a clerk receiving a salary of 1001. a year, and living either in Dublin or Edinburgh For the Onetime you will tax the income of that man about 2'. 4e. • and if he lives in a 107. hoese—aad it is barely maid. to get lodgings at a less amount—you will tax 13s. cia that, or about 3 per cent. upon the whole of his humble income. Now a clerk living in Dubin, with the same amount, will be mimed neither to the hems tax nor to the house tax. Oa the other hand, the only mamma lion you give to the English or Scotch clerk ia the partial remission of the tea and malt &dim. Now, su pposing that he consumes 1216.. of tea a-year, that will amount to about 4s. ;:and whether be drinks pale ale or porter, be will not UT* above 7.. or Se. more, or bib will not gob is all above 12a. on the most sanuine sultablisa. Bu{ ter clerk in Ireland will not only g. enamel Ism tho besets tax, but he will enjoy precisely the mega ramissies of Wheel taxi. ties. Where ie the equity of est? (131esess.) lethal 113 W sow the mead, cita ble, end just sessonseamite the W eems ten t (Naar . But now, let us ay al raw Basilan. =lteMend (Sir C. Woe 6) has spans eil his m which Malta linillal:liiir de li ever mouths asedisen ; and I mimeo dist M as th ou the very moil et perhatiaL - Phi sissal& Ihave really no wish to swam my Um of esailisme ; but I think still that moth remains to be dims if Modes sad equity are to be rules for mewing the 1..... tax. (Hear, hear.) Minn, collierice, railroads, gasworks, meals in Ireland ere all la Schedule A, aad are to pay 7d. la the pound ; hut steam boats and joist stack banks will be in Schedule B, end will pay bid. But I thick it would be difficult to show that there is say greater permanence in the profits of mines and collieries than in those of a joint stock bank. (Cheers.) Again, I know two persons, both manning professions and both enjoying about equal incomes. By a fiction of law a bishop draws his income from land, sad so on his 6,000 i. • year be pays 7d. in the pound ; but • Judge who has also 60001. likewise for hie life, is charged 61d. (Hear, hear.) Is this just ? (hear, bear.) Take s widow of 1601. charged upon land under her jointure—she is taxed 7d. in the pound ; but we have all heard of Mr. Moore—(loud chmen), with his 7,000/. a year *Maimed from • patent office., whieh he says is a ft. ehold, and he ie to pay lild. Yet these are the eehedales improved se as to conduce to justice and equity. (Cheers.) But take realised property. Ifow, any person having property in land la the colonies, or i n e s : e. i d part of Europe, or la foretga fends, is to be charged . ; but yet with all your care and auziety for property, there is in the very heart of of Schedule C, the landholder, for whom you have pro-' femed the tenderest regard. Nor is this all ; the holders of terminable annuities are receiving back their espial with their interest, and their income, is m my cases, will ease in HMO. Now, while you are taxing the foreign landholder bid., year own landholder, with • ter. minable annuity, is charged 7d. (Cheers.) Take' again the case of Ireland. There sits opposite to me a ' most distinguished and eminent gentleman, the head of his profeeme. By his own homurable exertions be has risen to the leadership of the Irish bar—the Attersey- General for Ireland. Now, I won't pretend to say to what his imams amounts. No doubt it is considerable ; and he is am to be taxed one fartkiag ; but kis disk who natives hie lash, and who is poi/ perhaps 100 i. a year, is to be @hafted. (Cheers) Oese men. The tidelamesr en Leigh Corrib, who has a Imp Isefly le support, is *hefted en his small stipend • bet the Whop it Derry, who lives in a pelage en the lama Ishe, is sot se pay one exposer (Oh.) Let the Ida 'Webs% iheirefese, take can whet eels hey giro e• this memissi. Meer. Mar.) Let am be omiest to these with the Mbar piths of the Beth* Zigthsa is such • pawsl and rah rodemies of the Wheat Medea of the easstry as he grevriag man will show ; sad that gradual sediamkas - will remeiely take plea. But let them glee a ems villa shall hay the harrow of direct carillon upon Ms hemilbor ammo is Great Britain, and I want them the time is set fir dieing whoa it will be so es adod to thane aloe. (Come .) Oes obscenities I will make, which is applisable to ths Mule Weis ethfrot, emu the great lewelem sf the Mahe meth of Mom sad indireet hustle& I Mid 110 ea Meioses of direst sad indirest taxation is the mad std oafs may fee this coun try. (Oltesn.) Bet that asekturs siguiro grist au tism ; athil the mayeatiows of IS nest hi *aimfelly (Seth. is fa gm*. the the = l ed . sow at the bead of Ike - t. I de it not in • meth" or angry *fish i let j mot soy that Lord Derby has, is reference to this aehhee, gime *slew that are well w orth e the attention of the Mom_ el this heeisent. Lord Derby ma, is 11147, " BY alatitnis..lol°/•"41:= titan of free trade, you will Ills ematheies iota lea Sersom of this I would not ray " rigidly,` 2 = would substitute fee that word " rashly and extra ." (Hear, beer.) If you net upon the pried* thosesslaye s z ner dieset texattoo, without groat meths, moldy red dm such a way that the emestry will set best SI, ' SPE slik all the advantages of your °pummel. _ MS pen will involve the fineness of this emery is ismerilial% essfie goo. (Hear, boar.) AzeiNtlels veft year, in , is very paeliesent eine. we met, Left Dolby mays—•• lees trade, I think, meant that yes will not lemon taxes for the purpose of protesting individual or dam letteems ; that ma will iss pose Imes for the of areesse end revenue 'sly ; sad that in the • of this made. yew will ham espeeial referees, to lighten/ft the beelese which weigh wpea the industrial slams of the cemaessity." I think We • very tan and just definite* sides trade. (Chisen.) H. added— " Although is that 'Tema sea mesh to value, bewever I de net deny that I me much ef alliwlty and teem es beneminent. I am present admits.; bet I ant set sari— Clei hrhid that I sisekl Mt ilthat that gases may ast hid tit future sethamesemet by ..e tosermary Amiss le ser Ithamial systom." Lord Dolby bias& NO as , ~ ...e t the thatme us. of this mop deetties—of divest be rett lthallea te a Mame *amt. rie ir me.) Whit Is the ishormo ? I my Maeda, w hat's, no, yeah easidoese to ter *Mem of the Imo Sir Robert Teel (Rear, Isom) TM very hoh time that be stoke on the he em, M UNA be thee enpeisedlblewslf : " I am qeite aware that there we Weiss te, Aram tam time, end I de net ogres with them who mould seholitste direct Is imam' WOO. 1 he set WA yes could, snaps hr • special sal tstopeary purpose, wisely carry &hem IMAM le a meth peeler extent than you have tMINNS it. Bet yam ilea(, severthelees, solidi that e en % • grunt ladessmeet Is mil times to take • revenue from bawd whir is. him asst Meath& Although I may thiek thetas impositka it Aram Intake in prefer able is simpered to basil tamales. yet I am set at all poormil Its amen that deem tamale dwell, without ma ture emailsestlee, ha substituted Is isdliost tasatioa. No dents boa gmedemee say, 'Cl, se I the public cre dit, these elm be se 'native . • best let the mils* of taxa riga be reelesell—let the Isardein be mom mu* sal/mud.' The feeling is, of cootie, sneelmensss til ie ltr iu rtells indie Well, sir, but I would Mier hest the lee is re form before I ems to wthribm this mmeesil smilers of taxation. Suppose that sow system to he L /11 11 01111 In the Ist of Yo bruary nem, with the eertaieq t the Issome tax meet expire TS Ohs 6th of April. Now, not ing all the professions of your determination la th=att to support the public credit, I have so moth drank of the failure of this new method of taxstlon before the fth of April, that, having a due regard for the paths mold, I should like to have the income tan to fall bah epee In the contingency—the possible contingency—of the new I "stem not being reli.heil, or not working encesestelly." I think you will discover that your new system le not much relished, and will agree with the policy here reeommooded, that it will be better to have your Looms tax to fall back epos. (Hear, hear.) It hu been mid, that there is every reason why these exemption., both In referent* to the Wow tax milt= hems tax, should bo reelected. I venom easibutly to alliebin a very different *pinks. I think there an retyped NNW why these exemptions should ' be sasintainst. lam oftspialoa that that elms haying in , 0046119 of =threes 1001. a= 1501. • year its this ormatry: eesstitutes *sway that dam of prow whose win= is that of the greatest atm& I. the weld. (Chem) It is exactly the pekoe =lame skilled labour ends—where, if I may use GOA se engwaselen, the Suds. jab= 404698 to be wee% 1,5.1 Mfr Ilabon he plow. (Rev, hear. Per sons in lib dab ellennera or Ws reempelled, from th e force ofeirmendeassa, to Rolando a polities somewhat bight, than bib MOM will blew. (Rear, bear.) The kamblest ebrke is dr pubis elem, many of the working elargy, sad • bap peederdes of dinettes ealaistors la this count y am ft& GM rabies i bay have to maiatala as appearance somewhat higher bon their humble mew will blow. (Meer, hear.) This, with referees, to indirect taxatios, Is it. after all, men eit less productive than the jaws* tax ? Your indices UMW= yields is the pew 86 millions an sadly ; yew Wane taa, 6.900.0001. Without augmenting this, there are mesa, abatises' to wet the reduction of the tea duty, whisk I think most beneficial arid eaexeep north's. Mese, her.) I will state in round numbers the sweat of =Wet taxation yielded ley the principal ankles of casseumplion. They are as MOWS :—Spirita, 8,660,0001. ; melt, 6,036,0001. ; Wow, 4,488,0004 ; sager, 4.173.0001.; soap, 1,013,0001. corn, 608,0001.; coffee, 496.000/. ; paper, 928,0001. ; batter, 181,000 1 . ; is all, 32,389,0001. These taies, open 12 articles of first us amity, fall, I contend, with peculiar severity, upon that very class on whom you now propose to place the income tax. (Chew.) What then is the re sult ? The view I take of this matter is, that you should have your machinery of diesel taaation complete and equitably arranged; sad that you should not make the burden of that direct taxation heavier thee it can poesibly be bora, Ia times of clinically. Yon may talk of your militia, of your naval preparation., of your theme, of artillery and batteries; bet if you to wane that the finances of the =entry are mashie to meet W berdeas placed upon theta, all your preperations will be as nothing, when contrasted with the ruin that must ensue from • shock to the public credit. (Cheep.) I say, bays your machinery ready. If the fatal necessity should arise for protecting the safety and honour of this country, you must immediately have recourse to direct motion, sad it must be paid. (Hear, hear.) I have that confidence in the spirit of the people of this country, that if the Witty of the action—aye, if the honour of the nation is in danger— they will not refuse whatever amount of tazation may be necessary to meet and avert that danger. (Cheers.) Bat they will take ears not to prolong the contest longer than when their safety is secured. (Hear, bear.) They will expect the extra tax to be strictly • war tax, and no more. (Cheers.) Is 1816, when the victory of Waterloo was woo, the soar= to Paris accomplished, and the peace ' of Europe proclaimed, the people said that the property tel of 10 per that. wee a war tax, and demanded its repeal as war had ceased. The Liverpool administration entreated its continuance only for one year more, to defray some of the espouse of the war ; but they were opposed by a strong party in this how, and the 010306 tax was reduced, and sbaliehed in the year following. (Hear, hear.) Therefore I warn you not to press your direct taxation unduly in time of peace; let it be a resource in time of war; and I 'street you to parse and consider well before you assent to this re solution. (Sheers.) Sir J. PA KINGTON wished to explain a raliapprehen lion into which Sir Jaws Graham had fallen. lie dueled that the government were seeking to Lord• the win question of the budget. The first resolution on which they Intended to take the vote of the bow, although it related formally only to the exteasion of thews of the how tax, admitted tin m really to deal with the main prineipk, and gave Wm liberty to agree afterwards ge te the ees tails, and to make whatever oddities lo the tax they might think proper, if they did not wish to Webs it. The later remark was received with • loud TOW of applause from the opposition. The right lea. geatleams *lll went into a general defence of the Wipe. @Pied the lehtstkos of Sir Jews Graham, Mr. Cables (es the preview even ing), Mr. Osborne, and ether be., seattemea. He de flied that the budget wet bend le a " revengeful " spirit ; he denied list the Untended to cony direct taxation S. es Ins est extent ; he denied that they =deed to soll =Wet close, and divide tows sad country. Ile awed Mr. Gladstese's theory that (leaded property WWI be exempt from Looms ma. He was confident that {he inglerity would arm the principles which they had bees usable to ceattseast. If not, they eh ,ul4 tad the eidelemey el their bond of union—which be believed le he a reps of sand—by roadneting themselves the liomeskil legisibien of the country. He believed that the oppartiis bed failed to excite discontent at the budget, seen in km temp; and he wee ceitebseed that aot a tingle large is wee opposed to it. After a few words from Mr. CROSSLEY, Colonel Sibtborp, Mr. M.Gregor, sad Sir A. Cockburn rasa together. After meat= enee for each, Sir A. COCKBURN moved thas the =airmail should report progress. Lord J. RUSSELL said before the question of the ad journment was put be wished to put a question to the right hon. gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) which seemed to him of the utmost importunes towards the Loneliest= of the debate. H. wished to know up= what proposition the government really intended to take the opinion of the hoses. (Hear, hear.) lie thought they were entitled to haw at least what tbeir proposition we to be. He bed entaialy sodermood the proposal of the (annum= to be that the gaieties hope tax should be extended to bows et lb. a ; bert he had heard in the atone of that .wog eeraie exproodess which seemed to imply that that port of the budget *Ma went to double the house tax was to be ateadeeed, es* that the only propositice to be pat was one for eatesSieg the area of taxation. Now that made a material alteration, not only with regard to the how tax, but with regard to the whole of the proposed budget. (Hear, bear.) If it were merely intended to cite= the area It would not be necessary to declare that the beam to should cease and determine ; it would only be nefassary to propose an oddities to the duties. But, further, it to him that the wbels plan of the 'overborne depaisi on the hoses tax ; be that was obviously It enable the Mesa to make the proposed Plastise of daWL (h eer, best.) He paid set bet suppose that the yeepsehtee to be made by the sevenusest et. s the edited Pet bet a. he bed heard dem diatom esessbets of the peeispret, • espesially bed the Illsevesu7 ef Meet est the Osisuise. woods shish tips ease doubt es the seireset. sal "MA left the wilds Wilt Paresis—be hap* then wield be ems explenati The CHANaiLLOR of the EXCHEQUER—I wish that the vote should be taken ea the diet reieUtieJ, and I shall esselder the web of the beam eassolosiee on the whole bediet• Lea I. Allem& is. made ea thestvatioa width woe not distinctly 'Whit. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Upon all the propositions whisk are on the table. Mr. GLADSTONE said softie, senld he mom dose and intelligible than the right has, geatisthim'eleallthalat ; bet be apprehended that dm Ilipsam s , thine an dealt in son- ' fortuity with the raise anill eis i geserialialiONWP of ths whole house, had set pea oho gaitios lea this Int 41110111.61113, but ssotelyspes the hth upon a maths, winds wee is Itself Um= tete. Peron who wished to have the horn toe tiYtl lobed sailed with satin math- Macy this he alb Were of the imeembio ; mad he thou& it wooed Ito Issohthe the paoththoht to take a vies ea the , preamble easikaiik mid sire we as the dad Idelibelien. Mr. MILES dreght time had bees a &alma sodas. standing that tho lo r il at s to was to be takes as warhole prisoipla of the ; them who voted 014 beiag_pisigall by to th e duels. ohms). Ho hoped the Chancellor of the Isthogur would W be drivel hem that Om. (leased aeon.) The essatry would theremgly user and the hot the u bind hi whether or set the principles Lid down were equit able, just, awl useful to this country. Sir C. WOOD said the peouabbs wield simply repeal the safeties haw taa he the "rpm of Mike ether duties substitereei he it. The gem eatmesmhs proposition was that than &meld be a duty of Is. apse .bets, and 1.. 6d. spat house of the vale* of 104 sad upwards. (Cries of "No, ney" km the mishloolahota) Up to that sight it wee closely animated that do Amt nets would be taken on the toosdii of eatemithi the boom tax. All he wanted to ksow was, what question they wore to be called upon to divide. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—I thought I bad frankly answered the appeal of the noble lord— (ministerial theers)—and it appeared to as that the noble lord war perfectly loathed, theiggh others may be lop. tious. I said I thooght it would he eonvenient to take the division on tha ant resolution, and that I should consider , the opinionwhith the boom we atom this, conclusive on the general scheme. He certainly had no hesitation in my ino that it was the intention of the government to propose, net testy ea eateasioa of the area of the hew tax, but an eatenelo• of the tax itself ; bet be weedd sot bind the home by a distinct resolution le particular mum ; be "add re- SOTTO to himself and the house, the sight of moving sameslmests. Col. SIBTHORP mid be Gould melee meals ellowanees for his right boa. friend (Sir C. Wood), seeing that he belonged to the "outs" ant was opposed to Om "ins." (Laughter.) He (Col. Sibthoth) sun does to the boom ' ender the (aloes.. of so party feeling detersinal to do 'hat he considered hie duty. Ile weit ' id be booted by no declaration or budget of any Chinned* eT the Blebetium. Ile would oppose such portions of the Widget as he damp roved of, bet would see abet • petty whose objet or stately to apse Um present goverment sod substitute another whM was guided by so principle. (Cheers and laughter.) Lord J. RUSSELL said he was entirely satisfird with' ' the declaration of the right has. gentleman. Whether they took the first divides in the remahte, or on the sub stentith resolution, wee • gewitios that might bettor be settled when the time for division same. A. the debate would, he supposed, be aljnurind until Thecredey ni it, he thought arrangements might be male fer Masbate it on that evening. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER mourned with the noble lord a, to lite time for tenntrellner the de bate. It was of the utmost Impntlanee that the &Ante should terminate on Thursday night. (Hear, beer.) Mr. T. fk;ut.we made a vain attempt to obtain a hear ths, as did also Mr. M'Oarooa. The latter moved that the Chairman report progress. The CIIAIRMAN decided that the adjournoteat bad been moved by the hon. and lessened member for South ampton. The debate was then edjourned to Thursday seat. PARISH CONSTABLES. Mr. DEEDER brought in • bill to amend the laws re lating to the office of parish constable. PARLIAMBNTABY PAPILBS. Oa the motion of Mr. Tvenatt, the followleg select sommitere ea parliamentary Palma wee nominated:—Mr. 'false% Mr. Bwert, Mr. Canimino Brace. Mr. Forteseue, Brotkerten, &z H. H. loch*, Mr. Drummond, Mr. Reedlam, Mr. Walter, Mr. Blither, Mr. M. Mums, Col. Mare, Mr. Hart, Mr. Byag, aad Mr. Mitchell. The ether orders of the day were thee disposed of, aad the home adjourned at one o'clock. gilt erpreOlL TO COR itill'ON MINTS. I ~Mt Ultra " The Capers," astarlai the same imelpeo reeti•," fig pobildgse eery Terry aad enemy Mark le Ire pow. triummeate Meador lee " The Lapeer," Lesion aralag paw, m tet be at the Orre, IC, Beevert•-earer, ), Tee Wreak ea UM lay ot t %bikers& 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. tam Day—Venda& O. NEL. Aleirsess. O. is. Ilassisam—Mandsg. Si. ise. ......„Aftempa. B. SM. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15. LAST night Mr. Dfintatm prepared for the event that now " looms" in his future by indulging the House of Commies with a short specimen of the art of trimming. A few days ago he told us that he and the Budget were positively "to stand or fall" by the vote now pending on tho double House Tax. Last night he sang a different song in these words:—" All " the Government wanted the house to do was to come to some decision upon the prin. • ciple of the Budget, end to allow them to " tike one vote before Christmas. Thsy had no de " sire to pledge any honourable member, by the vote " he should give on the present issue, with regard to " the details of the financial scheme; all that they " wanted the house to do was to pronounce an " opinion as to the advisability of extending the area " of direct taxation ; and, then, if that question was " decided in the affirmative, leave it for a future oc " easion to discuss the details of the mesanres which " were to be agreed to, in consequence of the odor " tion of that extended system of direct taxation." A few dais ago the matter was put broadly and valiantly . that one vote was to decide the contest — one decision to rule both Budget and Government, by which they declared their positive intention to abide. Now, they humbly ask for " one vote before " Christmas," by which "they have no desire to pledge 0 honourable gentlemen "—nor themsekes. Tho ' one vote, when that vote seemed likely to go in their favour, was the source of their valour ; now it be comes the basis of their supplication. Whilst the impending verdict seemed likely to be theirs, be it they declared they would be bound ; now their Budget has been exposed, and the balance inclines against tLem, they prepare to say the verdict is a thing of uo consequence—" which they have no de " sire" to regard as a "pledge." Are the Ministers of litre of a great nation to be permitted to follow such tactics? Whilst the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was giving this indication of the white leather in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister, Earl Decay, was playing an equal) cha ruteristio part in the Lords. The L ower Chamber was to be bambooeled, the Upper Chamber to be bullied. Mr. Dialuitul raid, Clive us one vote, and we will not pledge you ; Lord DERBY said, in effect, venture to vote against me and I resign. The Upper House of Landlords, it is well known, wishes to keep a Tory government in Ogee, and their present Leader knows full well, therefore, how to get them into action upon the Lower Home of Landlords. " The decision of the House of Com " mons, whatever it may be, cannot be without important and immediate consequences upon the " position of the Government its e lf.' So said Lord DERBY last night, and he went on to add something still more plain I think it is of great Importance that the country should not long be kept in mucosa as to the course of proceeding which parliament will ado 4, nor with regard to th e h aw & by wham the systmg of I , ,sistion is Mehl to be carried out. I hope a few cloys, or It may be a few hours, will decide that qaestion is far Si the other house of parliament t. concerned. I regret, my lords, that in consequence of the discoidal which has taken place, of which, however, I do sot wish to wimple n, It is ounsary that your lordships shou:d meet day after day, with little or no businem to trans act, for the purpose of sitting here a few minutes sod than adjourning. lam unions, as soon as the decision of the House of Comma., is proaeiansed--es seen es * resole. nose ate atoned, if affirmed they are to be, that your lord eßVlsisuld he released from that which I swam bet con ga* es a gnat extent, year unsesseere stosisdancs; bet was the Mein te whisk I have rshered, end he us er" Weft mow It, vomit la Muslim end IMenkiest Mine OW 1 ieupseetriefise sise Itier Is M; sum / I reenninended se eirennimele of this how for egigg iseeeileges jperee ps l4.4...zz if f . should dunes Ms crown yds of this and tes mew hew if peritonea.. t e acme Was d may b. wareaory for the amen to hose reeeeree M Mar thomestiate advice am sastessies. (Heer, bear.) Attar these hints from the Premier the Peers will tor ure o lumt the screw at once upon their county and seminees whilst Mr. DISRAELI striven to beg a few Issielative loose Rah by humbly solicit leg " only see vete," which is, to pledge nobody, nal which is 04 needful to tide the ricketty Mleisterial barque over the Christmas holidays. The shattered Budget was still further damaged lid night. Sir Lutes GRAHAM, Mr. Locus, Sir J. V.Bneu.rr, Mr. Waxticsox, Mr. HPOLST Peturr, and various other members, contributed to the long list of petitions already presented from constituencies against the financial scheme ; and all the telling speeches of the evening leant the same way. One long, loud, argumentative cry rings through the country,—finding representation in the press and voice in the Commone—against any change in our Mention meant to increase its present inequality of pressure. Sir I.Oascum ably exposed Mr. Disaszta's attempted trick for narrow ing the issw on which the debate was to continue and the division to take plum The veteran Nellie showed the impossibility a:permitting the Tories to carry out any such shuffle. The debate has been upon the whole Budget Hew Tax, Malt Tax, and all. Upon that the dis miss meet still be had, and apes that the vote be Woe. N. ebeau can be permitted to replace the reality. The Home mist asset reject the Budget as at first propelled by the Onexcsuks of the Ex amen, he anther. Wd most know, yea or nay, whether the present House of Commons are prepared to impose 21 per cent. tax on houses, whilst land is to rest as before at 3 per cent. ; whether increased direct taxes are to be levied chiefly upon that class who now contribute, the bulk of the thirty-two and a half millions paid by indirect taxation; whether the willing horse, in short, is to be ruined by overloading, whilst its coni nions escape comparatively soot free? Sir JOHN PaximoTon rashly attempted to reply to Sir JAMES GRAHAM, but he failed com pletely in his arguments, though, in attempting to repeat the Daum shuffle, ho succeeded in get- Meg into the Ministerial quagmire which the Cuscuton of the EXCHEQUER had prepared in, the early part of the evening. Altogether the signs and symptoms of yesterday foreshadow an impend ing Ministerial defeat. (biToN MILL AT ASHTON ON FIEL—OIR Mon day afternoon the Won thinning mill of Mews. Thomas Neils! end Sou, Asktonnader-Lyae, took the, whilst the hangs were at work. and was with difficulty saved after the - doetruetion of the two sipper stories. A boy was waking through the blowing ream. is the upper obey, with a !as ter, and some of the Seel lying about ht said to have ' Ignited and set Ire to a leper roam of eottem. The asigh bowleg meaufsentiee sent their fire-engiam, and alto- I gather not telethon Neve. of these machines were brought together. Thebes is reported at 6,0001., partly covered by ' insurances in tho )lanchester, West of England, sad other atom. MIDLAND COUNTIES CATTLE AND POULTRY-I Snow —litnutnostam, Dec. 14.—Thu being the private view " day, the show was visited by a large number of the 1 leading agriculturists in various parts of the eountry. By them a very gneral opinion was expressed that there was not a bid animal intim yard. la the anise of the day the visitors numbered 8,000, sad 'mended a very imasider able number of the aristocracy. The dinner look place at the Royal Hotel lest *treeing, rider the presidency of Lord Caltborpe, and wee very numerously attended. Is the worse of the day poultry was sold to the amount of Goa • • • b BAL 'MASQUE AT Ruat-LANL—M. Jullicn's tt tirement for his Intimated* expedition was , receded, ou Mondey envies, by be. of those strange, grotesque, and, ' to suniben, still attreetin entertainments, known ruder the name of bet nevem The splendid glees curtain, .Lich was tint introduced tore or three year, ego, added to the brilliancy of the decoestions, and the fronts of the boxes I were adorned with drapery iu lull harm 'ny with the sur rounding festivity. There was the usual display of chant, ten, from oriental peeks' down toms old woman (punnet_ _.414 by a malt) drowsed ep Se an orange geUtri IdeacitY, Poetical joking, and what th e French terns abandon. Pecalhof throughout the sight. M Jellies's bead was in felt strength. FItANCE. PARIS, Tunsnav Evssixo. The Emperor's visit to Compiegne is postponed. The Benallay Cosiemewm settling the Emperor's civil list is officially lipromulgated. I have already made you acquainted with the substance of it. It differs in no respect from my anticipatory accounts. The Emperor is to have one million sterling per annum, besides all the royal palaces, parks, forests, &e. 1,600,000 fr. per annum is allotted for the im perial princes, and the amount of dowry for the future Empress is left for after consideration. The allusion in M. Cesabianat's report to repairs necessary for "comfort" at Versedlin, seems to point to the probability of the Emperor residing in that palace. By a decree of the Emperor, the administration of the civil list and of the d o t a ti on o f th e crown, is con fided to M. Achille Fould, who takes the titlu of Minister of State and of the Household of the Em peror. He is charged to establish, on the proposi tion of the high functionaries of the household, the general budget, and submit it to the approbation of the Emperor, and all the expenses of the house hold will he paid by the treasurer on the order of the I minister. He will have the general management of the revenues of the crown, and of the civil lilt of whatever kind they may be. The Moniker contains despatches from General Random, the governor of Algeria, and General Peliasier, with accounts, set incomplete, of the taking. of Laghouat. It appears to have been a bloody affair so far as the natives were concerned, General Bousearen was severely wounded by a musket-ball while marching to the attack ; two commandants were also wounded, but the returns of casualties had not been received when General Peliasier wrote. On Sunday the Emperor gave a grand military dinner at the 'Tuileries to the marshals of France and the general and other officers commanding corps in the army of Paris. All the ministers were present. Yesterday evening his Majesty went to the Theatre Francais. A decree of the Emperor extends the benefit of :he amnesty granted to deserters from the eavy to de serters from merchant ships. I have not repeated the various rumours cur rent during tho last few days with respect to the Emperor, matrimonial projects, because I have not been able to find that any of them test upon any good foundation. It does, however, seem to be certain that the match with the Princess Wass is broken off. I have been assured privately that this is owing to the influence of foreign courts with the lady', family. Yon are aware that some time since rumour had found another husband for her in the person of Prince Albert of Saxony. This statement was positively contradicted the other day by a Ger man newspaper, which asserted that Prince Albert was engaged to a lady of the d'Este family. I now however observe the following paragraph in the Assemblie Nationale, a journal in a position to Le well informed upon such a subject : We leant that the mininge of the Princess Was* with Prince Albert of Saxony is definitively settled, and on the point of being concluded. The prince has gone to Prague, where the marriage will take place. SWITZERLAND. A letter (rem Neufchatel of the Bth, in the Frank furt Post journal, states that on the evening of !Sunday, the 6th inst., a Frenchman named Flan 6, formerly cook to Queen Hortense, who keep s a café at Neufchatel, thought proper to illuminate hia win dows in honour of the re establishment of the empire in France, and exhibited a transparency with an imperial crown. A crowd collected, and after a time, showing marks of hostility, smashed the win dows with a shower of stones. - The prefect was just about to enter the safe to persuade Flank to with draw the transparencies when they were in a moment destroyed. The café was, perhaps, more obnoxious as the headquarters of the (Prussian) royalists of the canton than for any other reason. We skall be sure to hear more of this. SPAIN. Our intelligence from Madrid is to the 9th. The grcrnment dreading the increase of the growing popular excitement have forbidden the meetings which ordinarily precede the elections. The following circular from the Minister of the Interior has been sent to the governors of the pro vinces : The preservation of order, recommended by the constitu , lion and the laws to the public authorities, is the first and noel acted duty of the government. It is, therefore, bound to prevent any assemblageewhich would compromise tranquillity, ordiminish coandessee, from taking place with out its authorisation, and under its eye. Political meetings havinn the character of electoral jamas bays been held at Madrid without authorisation, and have produced a certain I amount of uneminese. If they were to continue, they might produce sufficient agimeamt is disturb the ordinary course of &grain, and even eureka a morel coercion on the minds of toe electors who ought to be protected in the free exercise of their rights. The Queen has, therefore, with the advice et her comma, ordered that no each meetings shall be held in any part. of the kingdom without the euthormatios of the gammon of provinces, and that every batmen's of this order shall be punished according to the All the editors of the Madrid journals who had been imprisoned for publishing as article which was Fomented by the government, have been set at liberty, the jury having declared that it was not a libel. GERMANY. The Krems Zeslung publishes the text of the note by which Louis Napoleon's government announces the empire to the German courts. The French minis ter states that the new Emperor of the French mends, by the favour of Divine Providence, the throne to which the almost unanimous voice of the nation has called him. In the fact that France has Amgen a government more in conformity with its deeneter and history, there is nothing which can wor its attitude towards foreign powers. The same the same thoughts, will continue to direct the destinies of France; and experience under the most Mash ciream- 6-- v proves that the French go. . . nessest, while jock& of its own rights, scrups louly !upsets those of its neighbours, and attaches pest tmparUace to ths maintenance of the general pop these WWI the Emperor of France will sastioas a st, assiblest that, with a like disposi tion on the part of ether rulers, the peace of the solid will be secured. Letters from: Mannheim state that in consequence of a telegraphic despatch from Heidelberg by snoop nc ing that the students of that university were con certing with the citizens a demonstration against the Amman," or chief magistrate, two companies of infantry were sent in all 'haste to the Mannheim Railway station, so as to be ready to start for Heidel berg at a sassent's notice. The demonstration, pro bably in consequence of these precautions, was how ever postponed. The editors of the Vienna newspapers have been Ossisnand tothapresenceof the police authorities, and set to treat of the proposed marriage of the PAWS, Cerola Vas with Louis Napoleon. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Dec. 9. Notwithstanding the decision come to on the Stock Exchange, relative to the shares of the railroad here, it appears that the company are determined to go on with the undertaking; the decision of the government will be known in • few days, and it is supposed they will relax the programme a little in consequence of the difficulty the company will have to contend with. The ministry appears anxious to relieve commerce from many of its vexations; a decree has been issued permitting the re-exportation of foreign merchandise, in the custom•honscs where it is permitted without previous verification I the duties upon the re exportation being to be levied according to the volt* declared on the importation of the mer chandise. Another decree relieves national vessels entering the Douro with corn from the islands, from a vexatious obligation ; while the Ministry of Public Works has issued some portarias, tending to check the indiscriminate de*truetion of woods, with a view I to promote the cultivation of timber. Ihe Prince Regent, Rodney, and Termagant came in from Plymouth on the 30th. The Vengeance is expected from the Mediterranean. Exchange 54—Diaeount of Lisboa beak notes 2i per cent: SWEDEN. Letters from Stockholm, of the 3rd instant, repori the ooncalsocence of the Lag, INDIA AND CHINA: THE OVERLAND MAIL. We published in yesterday impression accounts in anticipation of the Overland Mail, received via Trieste. Our regular despatches have since arrived. The letter of our Bombay correspondent confirms the account given in the summary of the Bonibay Times. We give the following portion of his letter, dated Nov. 17 : Oue or two attempts had been made by the enemy to fire the town of Prome after it came into our pos session, and a few of our European soldiers had been killed on their poets or carried off. A body of some 8,000 or 10,000 Burmese soldiers was in a stockade about eight miles off, but Sir John Cheape's orders had been so strict not to attempt any movement during General Godwin's alkenoe, that the furcate, though reedy to bolt the nviment we took the field against them, were allowed to remain unmolested, annoying and frightening the country people from bringing in provisions to us in Procne, where they were much wanted. These protracted proceeding. have been universally condemned in India, as they will, no doubt, talon be at home. The following was the distribution of the forte in the end of October : Itangoon.—Ou• company Bengal artillery, 1 ditto Sappers and Slaters: lot Bengal Eudlien; 10th, 41:h, and 67th Bombay Native Infantry; a troop Madna hove art.: ry ; a a oompany Madras artillery, and a ditto of Sapii rs let Madras European Fusilieta ; 6th, wing llth, and 10•11 Madras Native Infantry. klassein.—half • company Madras Foot Artillery, and a wing 9th Madras Native Infantry. Proms.—Ose company Bengal and one and a half com panies Madras Foot Artillery, 2 cnaspaniis M:Or36 and Miners; IL M. 18th mid 80th Foot ; Madrzs Native Infantry. The Shan States are now attracting attention. Zimmay has thrown off its allegiance to Ave, and with an army of 50,000 men for the present stands neuter on our frontier awaiting the course of events. Our trade at Moulmein annually amounts with these states to about 32,0001. and the people seem well inclined towards us. At the Aeng Pass a large body of Burmese is said to have congregated, awaiting the turn of events,—and the tr oo p s i n &mean had been despatched an gnat haste to intimidate them and keep them on their own side of the mountains by fair means or fool. It is believed that Captain Phayre, who had been specially sent for to Calcutta by the Governor-General, his been so for the purpose of basing the Wvernorship of Pep. conferred on hint, as it is universally be lies ed that this province is to be annexed intrneetate,y. The force in Burnish is apparently disgusted at the way operations ale being carried on—for it is likely they will not reach Ave before January is well nigh gone, whereas the Commodore offered long ago to transport it to the capital by the middle of the present month. At Rangoon the troops were in good health with an abundant supply of provisions. At Martaban the duty oti the men was very severe, and Brigadier Johnstone at Moulmein is said to have staked for a reinforcement or he would be o'diged to give up and withdraw the garrison from the former plaoe. The 10th B. N. I. had reached Rangoon, and the 4th Seikh Locals, acid some irregular cavalry, %% re on their way thither from Calcutta. The following is the force which has ieft kernel Piudee for the Hazard district, to settle some dispute regarding revenue, and also to punish the murderers of Mash. Tapp and Carrie, two revenue officers. lest year, treacherously put to death by some tribe in that district. The Kelat-i-Ohibsie corps, Davidson's irre gular Horse (16th), and two horse artillery guns from Fitzgerald's troop under Lieut. Swinhoe,—the whole under Capt. Mackeau, of the former regiment. The tribe of Salads at Khngur is to be coerced, and one ally, Jehandad Khan reinstated in his tort at Skoomghee, which had been some time ago forcibly taken from him by the Ilnenuzore tribe because of his friendship to us. The force was to march direct on ethe Puklee valley. The 3rd N. 1., 9th irregular cavalry, and a wing of lI.M. 22nd feat, were warned to he in readiness at Jhelium to move at an hour's notice; and a brigade was ready at Peshawar for a like purpose. The Guide Corps use to leave Aboorzaie on the 2nd inst., under Lieutenant Hodson, to join the force in Hazaia. The detach ments at Aboorzaie (300 men, 71st N. 1., 2 troops 7th cavalry, and 2 guns) were to be relieved or reinforced by 400 of the 29th N. 1., a squadron lath irregular horse, mid 2 guns, under Captain Which. From Seinde we have news to the 12th inst. The 64th and 83rd Foot at Kt resclee and Hydrabad wets suffering severely from fever, and deaths were of frequent occurrence. The schoolmaster•s'rjeant of the latter corps had been drowned while bathing— the . regiment was encamped at Ghisree fur change of air and scene. The wing of the 64th at Hydrabad are said to be, almost to a matt, unfit for duty. Dr. Rooke, the now superintending surgeon at Kurrachee, liras warmly spoken of for his care and attention to the sick soldiers. He had also ptevenu ml the dispatch of the recruits for the corps in the north west, who had reached by the Duke of Argyle, till the sickness along the line of the Indus shall have abated. The General and the Commissioner were residing over at Manors I'oint—the coldest and moot healthy spot at hand ; and it was thought that a convalescent hospital for soldiers would be built there shortly. Mr. Frerc proceeds into the districts about the 20:h. Nine field officers have been ordered from Peona and Bombay to Kurrachee on court-martial duty, for the trial of Major Shawe, 22nd Native Infantry. whose recent dealings with Ali Moored I have already alluded to. The Major is an upright honourable man, and need not fear the result of his trial. In the meanwhile Ali Moored seems to be looked after pretty closely by the authorities in Upper Seinde —he must reside only in his own territory, come time since shorn, and justly so no doubt, of its fair pro portion. The Begaree Canal is to be onierged and extended, which will be a great boon to the people around. Major Frazer, Assistant Commissaiy- General, has exchanged front Scinde to lielgaum, his place being taken by Captain Birdwood. Captain Marston, had of the police, bad gone away on sick leave to the Neilghervies. The preparations fur the great fair were being carried on with vigour, but fears were entertained for the success of the project. The 6th N. I. left Bombay yesterday for Kurrachee as a portion of the relief of the eeason. Mr. Norman Oliver (a nephew of the la:e Sir Rebert Oliver) of !the ;Master Attendant's depart ment, has succeeded Mr. Thornton as third mngite tote of police; • and it is said that the Commodore's son is to succeed Mr. Oliver as first assistant master attendant, the second aseistent being thus a second time superseded, though acknowledged to be one of the ablest and most zealous Berreets of Government! The Rev. M. A. G. Frazer. ~t' the Free Church at Bombay, has been appointed to ..ac. ceed Mr. Green as Pretense?. of English Literature in the Poona College; it is said he will have to give up his clerical connection with the church for fear of alarming the natives! The fret train on mir railway starts to-morrow at noon for Tanna; a party of gentlemen proceed in it to visit the tonne: at Parstek, on the other side of the river. The run to Tanna will occupy an hour. Captain Worartim (Artillery)goes home to-day on medical turloughs The officer accused of having killed a Ciumbuieree while ',.con leave in that province has been acquitted of all blame in the matter. Lieut. Mitchell, 74:h foot, has, it is said, been acquitted of the charge of cheating a brother officer at billiards for which he had been tried by court martial. Assistant•surgeon U inphelby, of the leoth foot, tried for allowing himself to be kicked by a clerk in a hotel its Calcutta, and nap defending himself or bringing the clerk before the police fur punishment, has also been acquitfed. Lieut. W. Bryce, lst Madras Fusiliers, died some where near Calcutta on the 16th October. The !Hat Foot has been removed from Cannanore, and vent to head-quarters, and right wing to Fort St. Georie, left wing to Bangalore. Th e 3 r d, 16:1,, and 2 th Madras N. 1., have been ordered to l'aulghnut. Auen, and Cannanore respectively. The tuba, a inono poly has been abolished in t l•.e pre, ilk-, s of Malabar, Came, and Coin:lint 4.)1V. Mo tor MacGregor, C. 8., left Lahore in the end of October to take up his appointineut as Governs-General's Agent at Miteritedah.tel. An attempt has been made to murder a Mr. Coe rt. magis trate of Bodeen; his intended assa.siu's cut elf thin . "... • _...... of his fingers, sad severely bruised and wouul . _ ',.... s .., in =ay pima. The Free Church of Scotia F . ...J.. 1:: -,,4.,,.....i...::).......... :40 ....i......,11,........., , 72 (..., I