The Express. — London, England, 1858-04-20 00:00:00

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Resolutions in nation ware rata with the atom, DAT. ••• p•Tmeal. 1,042; as ; Plus ros Tts r Oboe, of Iledsocri 1., is .orm d Ur moll ray. nor oraserraleg re Ow the golds sir canted : o l f awl melt* ,11.1ftwime qu. 10 • 0 dlerto l do arts/ how memo 10 or me trarnrw= o.l.l6lkrali, 3*. fl) DEATHS. mu% Um 1,- 11114. it a M wife a ilis lac g Om Cwatens et O/a• Ws .t Mt a Y. Di" tisry . Whisk .10/11.4 T. will A.... Mons. Ws wile el Li. lice. Illiandk Morse Dams. SPEW` I,.es. Keg S. .st tesAssess WYSAS. SO SO ws. 8 . ransrml. Is Csibssisok rsiessabsas. she ,Irrha ALP. to IW flos. rid fee. A. Mu,* FAN.. Tel . A. al. No" " 13•11. a the late IL Ahem". /meal. WIN " M. • Waved ger et T. A. tor. Mr. M. radars, ... Mr. JAN NUM W. V. IL Jios o . gloa., J. Prig: IM• toblres.4 1 1 . 11 " 1 " w. the yes of Ber. W. ism Cu. G. TOO. Irs. 1:11:1 M OM. T. MVO W. al& la 44434 friig VANDERBILT EUROPEAN STEAM SHIP 141111. tifTYD "MAI NAIL /MEW tem belasipms et 00121 , Ow STAR fie lIWICTU WrAlt, Capala CATINM uos 5.% owl MN b......, ; Os Atlf i t bu CariLVDLOWN ins. aail MS 1 2:="4: d ptar .in Iwo SOArIII7OII rarillwrit "Mr" TOZA a. leDelle. ft.: AMC. • . Aril 11. I 11111 IL. pga,,Ws: Aril, I Rinct i g: IV* 1 1: ANDNABIL? . Jew I. ABAIL .... Aititud 11 r teire a r WNW . r i Zrratiet,* . aered am. L t.. 64.0. I°4 reata k wair LOA PO N rill a ri. .I.4oll:Vtit i .j . txriu CUM Ut. I.S. WU 111.111111124111. mai OIL. Ming sPairi l ial NW lIIIIM THE PATRIOTIC FUND COMMISSION. The Duke of NORFOLK moved fors series of return. relative to the mansgement and expenditure of the P►triotic Fund, which, after some discussion, were ordered, with one omission. CUSTOMS BILL. This bill pared through committee. Their bcpe adjourned at half-past 6. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNosT, Apin. 19. Mb gramma took the choir at four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Kr. LEPROY took the oaths and his Peal for the Univer sity of Dublin, in the room of the Right Wm. Joseph liepter, mem Lord Chancellor of Ireland. PRIVATE BILLS. Tb hibeliwy bills were read • third time and pasmel : Abrams Water Bill, Folkestone Water Bill, Liverpool Ex change Bill, Llakeard and Loos Union Canal Company's Railway B ill, Merthyr Tydfil Water Bill, Selkirk and Gala. Mikis Ealway 131 E. THE CAGLIARI. Mr. L. W. KlNCLA.lLipv;;oilee that on Friday, the Med Ma'am, ha wool& mom the following resolution : .• That this house wosM hear with Much repot that bar Mojeety's government felt Itself maapelled by Its view of the law of nations to withdrew trots the pirieirind the ammo of action indicated and sog peeld I s the govern ment by Lord Clarendon's at the 29th of December, sod taus house tenets that the demands made by her Majesty the Closets and by the Kind Sardinia in relation to the septum of the Cagliari mad her crew, the two govern ments will be able to set in medial cower L" GOVERNMENT TELEGRAMS. Mr W. A. FRASER fete notice that he would take ma may opportaaiaof calling attention to the general inaccu racy 61 taps r intelligence from tbe mat of war, and prdesierly la Ming on imperfect information the names of Maws supposed to have been killed in war, THE GALWAY ELECTIONS. Mr. the it.T.T.. 3 ; :denta for irek.d TIMM" be had had any communication with the chairman of the he. commimios of intilry am i o n i to corrupt practices et elemime for Galway concern the bill before the house, end an proposed anamilimmt • end if so, whether he y would ley the corretpowdmes epos the table, or state the Pulrof it to the boost WHITISIDI odd he be had no co moo with the hoosoi mamma who woo the chairmen of late wowiholow, bet he saw him cm the first day of term, and had • eseminedea with him, mud be was afterwards so good ae to eve bin a copy of the report which had been laid before the Wan, sod to draw his attention to certain portions of the sviamm which would assist him in separating the guilty hum the homelike voters. THE MILITIA. Wong PORDE inquired of the Secretary for War what IMO the intentions of the government relative to any allow ance le be ghee to the men of the regiments of the militia whisk tby tatended to disembody P PiILL said the volunteer, on bring disembodied world, of ovum, receive the unissued portion of their annuli bounty. They would also receive 14 day. pay, without beer esionry. This would be paid to them at once, and not by Instahneets, es usual. They would also be allowed to take away their tunics, trousers, and boots, issued during the roe 1867 and 1868, and their fatigue clothing, together air oboes and socks. CHINA. Xr. WHITE asked the Under Secretary for Foreign Mike tf say ad what instructions had been transmitted Is hat /dis piraipotaitiary in China, with the vi ew t o Aida lismoiriaa for the losses of British merchants @rift sat ad react mats at Canton, and also to secure war Mon morarifil relations with China on a more satia ble:fry brio. Mr. & FITZGERALD replied to the question at some kV: t y is e. 7•ace partly of his turning his heck to the , sal , nod still more, of his spasking almost la • whirr, y th• UM few words were audible, sad thee* wen to ** * oast that, whatever advantages might b e o h_ Woad, weal& be obtained Cot only for British merchants, bat is thip comma, at the world. THE MARBLE ARCH. Led ELCHO was imilous to put a question to hie noble friend the First Commleskeer of Woode and Forests, to mimeo tea ulster to witch his attendee bad been called alms the lest mistime the homes; he referred to tie scheme et pleslng a eieeb en the marble arch. (Hest.) He bed aseertaised by mead impedes et the arch on the previone day, that then was mat Me next to embarks:it-gate a paper dial of • dock, erldi Osiers; duly painted. Now, be whited to ask hie noble bind whether tetras his intention to erect • dock an the melt, end if se whether the idea was an MOW ons—(laughter)—er • Isg wit epueathed to him, Mos disibarba, by bis rlpt bah.tdowl to (Sir B. Hall), I Ma wield she ask Ms nebb Mend er he knew of any Gum Whams of sastioa's eciabisiag the ornamental with the mieful, by putting a dock on a triumphal arch, and wbeilmr bet Majesty's summates* thought it desirable to LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1858. VERLAND ROUT E . — WEEKLY COMMU ICII'IIOII r to INDIA, shit IlyaL4—Tbe yretira ard 0 lIIITAL IPTIANgaTIVIN 0021. /NW& FANNIN INS sod mg 100 Fur kir the re si.L. " ... taittatt a loWllONlAooolo Is SO alb rootsw. a " a twine 's 4. the liedbu n u Atittrill a h Ssuilumpus ref s r= aloft Lesihr MONT BLANC 1$ OPEN TO-NIGHT. R. 'ad Mrs. GERMAN REED (late Mi. P. Mittlw sofas -IX ow e.orra galwerc it S. Oa Illatareq am tor =as la tima. at 3. is.. fa, Ind b. OM. ascand sus dam, ft Wm Boni of Ilriesillem. dims; nil at Omar. iris. a od Owl% le IlagaNasem. 14. CALDWELL% THIRD BAL MARQUIS PIM 40 THUMUIDAY, ANN ler* ;moil No so pyrion 410040 Olelimnrs Oa11" ; sod dr Fsok prhodo M in" .a SO omomg /or moo Wok olio c ir sz: I = 6 = So Owe Oloive omooloon ow mob tem MIA Adodoloa 111.—Dmolrook 11/10. D R. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL sad PATHO- Ay LOGICAL a mis db a,,,. =MA (Herr DAILY AINWok IA by De. Übe oi iNg A—De LaloA Looluivo as Obi et lisol•AA AA, um pot ton es roolipt et 1.1 domis. 4UTOBNVATEM"IteriIbiLAH 100 , a rm.*. amo... MOW be IL 1 Lame a. iw. •Ws wed 111. booex Wili pair sad alibi. ._ . . . LW 2 . I Wsi . . I ., Zarg. In Wpm Le nom wit d uwwwwww ot ii .• 9 .d. ra . li s l i giAl s obrz a. iir i t i c ieb: ei : —Zo=irs .8 @idea U Zen 11Zinswi le • L ' of wilmas ao Wortwg geo. - =Wwwor. ' 6...N aera Arilik la U l Z a".. 06.. li=s""*. MAT= IDITION Or /MU NIL IC Anil LITZ Or LORD lOW Noe nay. lo win, moll wa Itelnkolos 131, do*. LIFE and CORRESPONDENCE of Lord ' a M &WILLI& If Jess !flaws Km tom mai wink Ildkiss, with ailltinol Woos ma ppyr uhu bobs it A..& Wen brie., rat IYYi Lome., NM In M. Mr of wiallenaloo IMa Lobe Oar. rid Co.. 11l Omblll. EOTICE.-Mr. THACITERAY'S LECTURES re the ZX OUP, HUMOVRI*III of ilia I.IOIMIIINTFI CM, Nam Masa. VA Ivo. pries do*. be raft is a tom dam Landon: Pula, sod Co.. aa, Coral& TIeSTORY of the SULTAN MOURAD and ivaa.cora sum ass be ebeieek grates. ea eieNeetoe be %rre ee weemmiller lbeeellemel it biseibsze tt . 111 ti as beim the pebedieg ellee to me mem fametiket adds's, Pluebotreet. Leefaa. /O. hi jab ad, ivy rad nadload 21 ... pita la. or by post. lay .at. DIBraP/MVONLITITUTIONAL 11111111111•14 ea lime as lOwnwiudy t IMO am Oa Um at Oa //lawayspa lb NW baalwma .t a w.. By a Parma& mak weawaina taw a 'NOW amburat ••=groka• mow.melt of nosy "wee warmly ta Oa draw ad maw deo mear es = k ba l. walswe amain Ma pm. W war s. I. will :a issid day MUM wtia Wad Esemi S. Cal W wi awwwww. We ~ma obi* Iwilwas Ode plemew and Sbe aiwbed nkr *air awmid. VIZ *the mar Aresse,ipelas a • by la* ter II INC, 4Lint ; yr. Er, le U.& Inst i ro M M tor: Irka=pl=o=Si mg add iad m ar g r, Mir IS= WWII. dronsir of a : .ev. = . l ... d. ..hla r ar4fot: Sesas:La mINVIINTORIL—OFFICE il e uzstaum i te d iamik u t i aseprivi. art am= law ow *AZ ONO .. ; awl ivory beinislirsao Is el lamb J a r twitzer=ar c l= / 4 =gMime SMITH'S ESTABLISHMENT, 4, t lielZ i e==.l l 4 ~oh Gad es =Via spilbs. lbs. EON'S WATCHEL—m fl e qua li ties of Lis I• draw arsi lorno.'? st "Ifs Ire in are of sw.. mar ."—Olissina. *me he "ipwilaufas liebieemi lOW maim le lie padre do wadi Walla b mismina psi& Sew pale =Mega moleliniala. • OUR OWN OORRESPONDENT •sag wassiwa r = Mr i l 0: I t 0011=11 ev.trzekrasvw. ?Ur t ir 9. uumi ft. nom Nalksagma k ARRIS'S SPECTACLES, die cheapest and rimsoll.arme osooMome too jimemfai tho s Prom nomatiy isionsi or Dm* OD pm 4111111 J. Oper.do. D.,—lgunts's hews was. ler earee %rs. .W dd.. Doe ..fl NID ea Ai O ODD le Wm sad ea eir =h. a.— OS. 112:11 : W A Mopololool to lip Dray. IMMO ID MOD r.... mak Linea ospooloo De Deft aid onrlion obs. ENE HEAD et HAIR, the Beard, Whiskers, mai d _W MACA likaradskm—D Y see Imlay reknewiripd QM =bhll NSSAR OIL li lie so snide WI as be e. p= Oa ilie owls sad kr Improm YlN ft se 41 beanYtylft theb.ura si zied Woad OWN= WZrl.rei lAY b p:r i ZZl M* ouilig kir}"di "la" :ll4= .. ile We d a r : r leA4 el 011. ;Vg zri to fez Ws. ed. ge = I. dis. Illiwast las, _ls m 1 billow is 6 low •74==.t...1..."1•2 KRASAMI3 MEDICATED CREAM, metals con far Oen. ilkorgins. Nuns. &W. kW Clableni. ail IWO wens of UN Ma rtw%=n ifr is=ile OWN% on pain ammaeld War awil w aill a sur ai tr t 14 1 s. ere; and la 14 11: 4 1An i rths. mei fa. .1" I. &NSW ineonle tow *twin. X. Proasetad W laLattara IrslttlAt e_ rte. DI a I=lo -.Mt. ori tat tchatlisa. hansish red am. to drew, d Thurer a lt=l= bi Ilk . ti ... 17= 0. ee .17 d di ,h . ; a t .r,.. rez., 0 . cm& 1 *anemia TOMO he intim. 14 1 2 .1.4 1ith . he seers sirmar Mho SUIRNMINI7OII *a .1 th how r urtitullas. re WOO MO MO& Me. th• well hart nosh, Mir.Ms 1. I. Ind Sos• Me et Nee or hook ha el al ermalth Ala The NNW Nom u• *Oh this lb* eh bit Ala b fMIK oral Ith. •• Mot math mg tit •••.. OMNI how 114 : sol linwa. wroth She it NNW et sla • 0041 the 'woo sbut l iS ili lhoh IT t . 11 ', ' llaral. ... .lllkOzf'itm'r sbllN; h ew . I rti tie rt•hjul. :a.h. i ftre., lowa.- A Coarra.tst.—Whilst we were watching and waiting ke pt a glimpsed Outram, whose guns, mingled enthiatommat musketry, bad kept up their thunder eines *Week, • diversion we...fleeted on the roof of the Ihlk kolas la the advent of Poleran Singh, Brigadier of the Gkonhae of Frsnks's division--a very gallant gentleman Mug. Is white kid gloves, a height olive tank trimmed wait geld hoe and fastened across the brevet with a clasp of elimand• ; tight olive penteloona, with gold stripe; a gay a olive skull-rap, with a gold lam rim, In front of stda—mine of Gilmer:le.—there shamed, broad and as one's band, out aigrette of great diamonds, Into n h rrh was fired jauntily a light graceful plume of bird of Paradise teathers, the en 4 at which were curved in a gentle waving bead by the weight of pearls and emeralds attached to thent—a witaseer with Jewelled kilt and sheath, and Jewelled pistols by kie aids—what • contrast did our friend =plain Sir Celia is his pith helmet, • plain blue coat to with bettor, sad corduroy troosers, whose only meek of commend was his air end his trusty old sale* %del nuke his arm !—Tines corrupondeat at hacksaw. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoxDAT, Arm. 19. TM LOUD CNANCILLOILSOOk bli Mt 04 thti woobook at in o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas, Um Edlabwith LLds Among= Company, and lb . Whitahasen Harboar Bills rad a awed woe. PUBLIC BUBINIIB3. TEI GOVERNMENT OP INDIA. The Earl of ALBEMARLE pve sottoo that co Morley out he would pretest o patios Iron Bins= la refer- Moe to the minnow M the Nem India ou TSB OATHS BILL. The Bari of WICKLOW ply notice that In the &Mt of the Oaths Bill boft reed • asessd time he would In eon althea Move the ami nfaia of the words, " No foreign prison pikes, site, or rotate* h•th or ought to have any Arb or authority ibis nmeim." THE 61/311 OF THE CAGLIARI. Lord WENSLEYDALE emir the noble bed the Seer tary of State Joe ForamGun whether he intended to rah, the question rte the legality of Ur Ire &tendon of British se.;in Napier and the us&Ekei of intensatkatal law est rof e ere the to the decision of the TuWel Cle a merso a the Privy i• ? He thought it VW still Err desirable that this ahead now be done, as reel wee steed to he a allaraa• of opinion between the law Sr aem of the crows ea the eabjes. If such a diflarenoe r ioted the gevermene right to be folly miser Behan they trade a deka on the goverameat of Naples,withal! ore made to be weir. Then surf he se more proper tribunal thrt aa Vlsit del Committee, which cerrier civilians and erases law lawyers by the sot 3 Gad 4 Wm. IV., c. 41, her 1" wee hay earreird to Mar such eq uation to them. re AM not wish te rim the goverment on the subject at this rem* but aa.ly to throw out the euggestion to theta. The Eeel of MALMEBBURY was glad the noble bed het ietrodused the @abject, se it would give him an eip =ll47d esplerip irii: s he government had so long wiseseralag the of the law officers on this very isegatetrisa, they had promised to obtain an Hee Majesty's government, after the meet= wasiderethe and discussion with the law Akers, led vast. the candesian that, the question might be di vided Ye two pert.: the Ant, whkh he might cell the Ilegthe queliaa tared to the detention, sufferings, sad imarisemest of the two English engineers who happened to be at brad the Cagliari. Oa that question the law °Mem were mime in their opinion that the isopesonment sad detadha wee illegal, sad that the government might de mand term God ocalenastica for them . In eortmnce of that &aka la led mead • despatch to Signor Carafe, r awe wee see Metal dipislils representative at Naples, seal rams sad cemplasedoe. With mord to .41:= quake, whether the terglate a the Qatari wee ast, wads the in few hears he W reesived the tithe law alicere. Tin of hum wen of = &7 '. 61 menu wee isgal • , the Wed hull it wee Ghia With word, therefera le the geodes a the ispkty of the arum four a the law alms °Galahad by the Ire and primal goverment declared that the septum wee foga ; one con@ulted by the preset govermeit cis aired it to be illegal, so that Or were km to me es the Under rt these ammeters' Orr Mahar mild re im poseible to tate Snag uteasarsa tives it stron asseens awe stades any eirowastmadainkh. Ne doub t Uwe wee ashen feeling of sympathy beams this cuattry sad thwilleds ; but when he ceewleee cdos le Ildt be ought est le forget that he was responsible toe &dog what was inlay right. He could not say what would sew be done, mane had an opportunity of looking into the report of the law oaten. He felt much obliged to the noble lord for making the suggestion so to the Privy Council, and the gormand would consider it. He should also state that the two law cram of the present government who considered the term of the Cagliari to be legal had declared the con densers and conlastion of the ship would not be legal. He wee sot aware whether the ship had yet been condemned • If else bed, the 'awaken thought such condemnation Mari; H• woes aware that the vessel was still detained. WENSLEYDALE again urged that, rider inch eircumtanoin it was still more important that the should be Mersa to the Judicial Committee. lied ob I:MANVILLE asked whether there would be any to lay on the table the papers referred to ?to MALMESBURY could not do 6o io the missal Mate of the negotiations. SALE OF POISONS. Lard CAMPHILLE did not think it advimble to protract the diecussion at that momwt, He begged to remind the noble earl at the head of the government of hie promise to give en answer on a subject of domestle intareet, as to the prohibition of the sale of poisons. The Earl of DERBY stated the Home Secretary intended to put himself in commaskation with the Pharmaceutical Sodety,and if he maw his way to doing so, be would introduce a bill. greet a stook cm the waked bet of the Doke of Wellington's states f (Greet leughter.) Lard J. MANNERS odd the late government lad left Ike resew one no such legacy as a paper dial on the marble arch. (Laughter.) But, whoa be wooded to Mike he food that certain inhabitants of the neighbourhood were shunted at the appearance presented Icy the maperstructure of one of the lodges sad the object of Oadm the clock upon the mob, supposing it to be dose, would ids to secure ni.Wmity. He was in no way wadded to the idea, and it waa fur the public to form their own opinion. With respect to the last qua tion of the noble lord, he had only to my that the govern. meet would offtsinly be no parties to the placing a clock on the hat of the late Duke of Wellington. (Laughter.) The report of the committee of supply wee then brought up. THB BUDGET. The beam levheir resched itself into a committee of ways and mama; Kr. Trrzawr to the chair, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCiIIiQIIER mode his Amadei MeMensat. Hs began by adverting to the great elmeges white had taken place in the common. del otedielon of the country since the financial BMW meat of his peseseumor—ohangem which had clouded and disturbed the prospects Indulged in in 1867. The iteemima panic, he observed, had acted in • ideesirees manner upon our own commercial condition, and lower& the sad of the year • monetary crime, in which the sift of dimwit numbed 10 per teat., had produced town Metter, and premed heavily upon the revenue of the cam try. After resew returns of the British trade and navigation Is 1165, 1666, and 1857, and con paint awn with the Maras for 1863, the year been the war, he mowed to ecedder our tinandal condition—tie charges upon the revenue sad the means at our command to meet them. There had been, he said, • oonddershie reeteratime of commercial confidence; capital was abundant, money was cheep, and the prime of the main articles of consumption were tower; but it wee his conviction that, although the general con dition of the country was at the present moment sound, and although there were indications of improvement, he could not indulge the belief that there would be • rapid return of the spirit of enterprise. After stating the amounts at which the *event items of expenditure had been esti mated for the last year by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, and their actual amount, he detailed the estimated expenditure for the year 1868-69, "tr. : Funded and unfunded debt, 28,400,0001.; civil list, &c., 1,900,0001.; army, 11,760,0001.; navy, 9,860,0001.; mix censasons civil servicat, 7,900,0001.; revenue depart ment, 4,700,0001.; IleMlitue , 3,600,0001,;-67,110,0001. The resoarces to meet these charges he estimated as follows : —Customs, 23,400,0011.; excise, 18,100,0001.; stamps, 7,660,0001.; land and amend tame, 3,200,0001. ; propeety end images tax, 8,100,0001.; post-oftice, 3,200,0001.; mown lend', 270,0001.; miscellaneous, 1,300,0001., total 0,120,0001. The expenditure being 67,110,0001., and the estimated revenue only 63,120,0001., there would be a deficit of 3,990,000/. " I do not know" added the right honourable gentleman " what may have bees the expert tenons of the committee on this point, although I know well, and from many quarters, what was the expectation of the country • but ',bah,' the committee think the numbers I have stated an overwhelming or only • met dead; it is nu doubt • result that should make us panes, and deeply consider the mode in which we shall encounter it. (Hear , hear,) But before I enter into that consideration I may be permitted to make one observation on the deficit, and one which ought to be con solatory to the country. It is • deficit which, however vast, is not occasioned by any falling off in the national resources sir, I do not know how I can place that more clearly fore the Luse than by assuming for a moment that the tame resources were at my command-1 will not say as those of my predecessor, became ho had extraordinary re warms, but the same resources as if the taxes which prevailed last year were in existence during the present. I would suppose that no reduction took place in consequence of the alteration of the income tax from seven poem to fire pence; in which case our revenue would be one million more than it is at pre sent. (Interruption from the opposition, followed by loud cries of " Order.") The consequence of that would be • reduction of the deficiency to 3,000,0001. Then we moat take the charge which we have incurred in order to pay off debt, and which amounts to 3,600,0001., and it 'follows that were It not for this engagement, we reould, instead of • deficit, have • surplus of 6410,0001. (Loud cheats.) Now, in dealing with this very swims subject it Is still • consolation to us to know that this is • deficit which has not been created—notwithstanding the sharp fortunes which this country has experienced during the year which has elapsed— has not been occasioned by any diminution in the resources of the country. (Hear, hear.) I propose to consider this de ' ficit under two hee ds—gut, the amount of deficit which is occasioned by our undertaking to pay debt • and in the se oond place, I will consider the amount which is occasioned by the cessation of taxes, that being, in my opinion, the simplest and most intelligible manner of treating the subject. First, then, with regard to the 3,500,0001. which is occa sioned by our enpgement to pay debt, the first branch of which I shall bring under the notice of the committee is the war sinking fund, the amount of which is one-and-a-half mil lion. The committee is perfectly aware that, irrespective of the war sinking fond, there is • general sinking fund In o fund tat ra Pr io e n v&iled T nis y m 6ar tUnTw i iir tra a t t o e r:l f lo s t i ttr i a r fixed sum, without any reference to th e state of the remota, to the payment of the debt. In the very heat of the great war the House of Commons passed areeolut ion ordaining that ever, year five millions, without fail, should be applied to the redemption of the debt. That system, with (more or less variation in the annual amount, prevailed until the year 1829, when it utterly broke down, as being utterly fallacious both in principle and wadies. In 1829, a committee was appointed to consider tbe whole question, and having examined it with great acumen and in all its bearings, it recommended the only sound principle on which a sinking fund could be established —namely, the tippling ion of the surplus revenue of the country only to that purpose. But, air, in the course of the late war, tome loans having been incurred, the house thought fit to recur to the old principle on which sinking funds were established—namely, that of allotting a fixed sum without reference to the state of the revenue to the liquidation of the debt, and while they recurred to the old system, they, with— I think—serene inconsistency, did not think of superseding the new one of 1829 which had been founded on a totally different principle. When the pleasure was brought ferward it did not pass without discussion in the house. Objections wen made to the proposal by persona of very high autho rity, there was a debate of some duration and a division, and It did not appear that the government was very mach enamoured of its own propose!. But the house thought fit, mainly influenced by the opinion of one who on that subject, if not on all subjeete, is a high authority—l mean my hon. friend the member for Huntingdon—to agree to the revival of the old principle. But my hon. friend, when he recommended that course, recommended it for special reaseets. He said, " We are now at war, but we shall soon he fa • state of perfect peace, and not until we me In • time of perfect peace would I have this sinking hind come into operation." Whether we are now in • time of perfect paws I mount here discuss, lest I should introduce angry alienate into the discussion, which should be calm and temperate. If I were to ask my noble friend the secretary for Foreign Affairs, he might be of the same opinion as the noble lord the member for Tiverton, and diplomatically assure me that we were not at war with China. (Laughter.) But I am not • diplo matist—l have charge of the finances of the country. I look to the nosey estimates ; and, looking at them, I cannot help thinking that although we may be at peace with China, that peace has • most warlike influence on the expenditure of this country. (Laughter.) I therefore think I am justified in supposing that my hoe. friend would never have advocated the restoration of the sinking fond had he contemplated that It should be brought into operation at • time, whether of peace or war, when we were fitting out armaments and send ing great naval forces to the Chinese waters. (Hoer, hear.) But besides the sinking fund of 1829, besides the war slaking fund which comes this year into complete operation, we hays also to pay two millions fur exchequer bonds. Now I ask the house to consider to what state we should plant the finanoes of the country, with our commerce in a state of de pression which renders it incapable of bearing great taxation, when we have these two sinking funds in are under engagements for the exchequer ad, beyond this, actually have allotted • menda ens to the reduction of the national debt. The amount is small, but you will find it in the accounts of the year. Let me show what is the practical result of these artificial attempts to pay debts when our revenue is in such • state as to have no surplus. Here is the account of your public income end ex penditure. I will not weary the house with details, but hem while dealing with great amounts en both sides you will fled a great exams of expenditure over income. Last year, with a revenue of Piety-eight maces, your owes, was two and a half millions, but when I turn to the details of expenditure I fled the sums allotted to the sinking fund, to exchequer bonds, and to the liquidation of the public debt, to amount to two and a quarter oulliocia, leaving only a quarter of a million of Settle! MOM in expenditure. What follows? That you have certainly paid off debt, but not out of your revenue ; you must have paid It out of the Winne in the Exchequer, and have thus followed a sys tem which the house will admit ought not to be continued. (H ear, hear.) The house must consider the con sequence of bringing past and present hardens simultaneously to act on the revenues of the country, the consequence mast be to have war taxation in time of penes • and if you have this war taxation in time of pesos it mast have • most detri mental Influence on that commardal prosperity upon which you so mainly depend. I must, therideri, ask the banes to =eider whether the time has not ttreneess,, not semiy with re ference to this year, but to soassdiag years, end with reference to those results regarding taxation which IN wile— which we are almost pledged—to scoompffsb, esnially is ter coasider this polity of maintaining an artblefel fastl,—a principle which I think totally fallecious ial Z ortaisous, and its applicatica • great and serious mistake. Berra* independently of maintaining two sinking hinds on contrary principles, indepeadeally of the role that the old linking fund was on a sound principle, admitting that the war fund was right In principle, still it was wrong ia ■ anion ; newel' never should have been brought Into tetras natal we had paid off the Exchequer hoods. This triple Mica of paying off the debt can only end in increased Mattes, in ham which would be absurd for such ea otfeet, or in financial embalmment which all of us met desire sincerely to avoid. (Hear, hear.) I ask this the house calmly to consider the question. You have a deficit of whiok dust and a quarter millions are crested by engagements to pay off debts You have no sur f:, you have ao lams of meeting these engagements, and then do you mesa to proceed? you have a loan it, the prupess—wM yen have • lose to pay off debts, part ol those engagements consisting of your artificial sinking htad ? Could there be • greater blunder on the part of an Individual who was seeking to set his accounts in ceder then aegodating a loan to meet engagements of this kind ? Is it not the last ruse of • man in diffionttles to rsim mow to pay debts, and thus to get into deeper diffi culties? I semi hoagies that this home will auction • Medirto rein loans to meet monomials to pay debts. the house prepared, by taxation, to meet these en pennstts ? It is very difficult to say how you could, just now, mire Ores and • half millions by way of taxation. = der ) It is rather • peptizing question. (Con .) But suppose you were resolved to do it, it woVnot get you out el the difficulty. If you were to sties three end a-halt millions to meet your engage ments, you would NW have • &AM of 600,000/ and you . D ark* poetise Ise that and als o for some labill% Is sheet, b rats • ere atfrar millions or more. I think that oadw dam etramestences, the time has come, sot merely with referents to the Downtime of the moment, but also to pit our finances in order for the &lure, for some determination respecting this war M fund, end I would humbly reocemaind to the home to termhate the fund either by repealing the act, or by, at lent, suspending its operation until the Exchequer bonds have been provided for. I feel certain that it will be impossible to meet the ment which now exists by law, but which dis tinguished authorities have objected to from time to time, and which the labours of • committee of this hone in devising • general sinking fund act have mainly suppressed ; and which, more over, while it is not necessary to maintain the credit, la cal coined to embarrass the finanoes, of the country. (Classes.) Therefore, sir, I shall recommend, so far ea this 1,600,00 W. a year is concerned, • coarse which shall prevent it' embarrass g the finances of the country for the nature. (Hear, lam.) We have now to deal with the two millions and • half of debt. 1 must say that I view the engagements which we have entered into in tehrince to these Exchequer bonds in a very different light sad spirit from our engagement in regard to the war sinking fund. 1 have been told that there is the easiest possible way of meting this difficulty—namely, to fund the Exchequer bos&. But, if I did so, I should feel that I was teldng a course that was unjustifiable, unless the country happened to be In that position of difficulty which rendered aneseary a departure from all recognised principles of finem. At the present time and under existing CiFCIII:9- Mom such • came would be in total contradiction to the =Mittens which the government and parliament entered into when they agreed to issue them terminable securities— (hear, beer)—end it would, oonseqmently, be to me • source of peat settelanion to meet, and to meet to the hour, those ta (Hear.) Them is, however, much to be con sidered we arrive at that conclusion. The house, of ovum, would not think oftrying the alternative of a loan to get over the di ffi culty. (Hear.) I am right I apprehend in sup posing that to be the feelingtof both sides of the house, and that, therefore, is not the course I propose to adopt. (Hear.) 8411, to these Exchequer bonds the same difficulty applies as to the war sinking fund. If they are to be met by a new tax it must be an excessive tax to produce two millions end a half, and when you have produced it, where are you ? Now , sir, If you cannot meet them immediately, the house, I think , should agree to this—that the spirit of those engagements should be fulfilled—(cheers)—and that they shoild be re garded as engagements which we an resolved to most out of the revenue of the country, and that we should guard as tench as possible from their ever becoming • permasat ad dition to tics public debt. Seeing that the as cienezlhafri awaits me wan if thews are provided for—anxiousl be et me to provide for them—l feel it my duty, in ceder to Om the Omani of the country, not merely for this year, but fee future years, in that pomace in which I think it is for the publicadvantagethat they should stand—l feel it my duty to recommend to the house to postpone for • period the pay ment of these Excheqaer bonds—(cheers and • laugh)—but to cement to arrangemsuta which, so far as I can form an opinion, will secure their being paid out of the "semis of the country—(hear, hear)—and which will pleas our amoral finances in each • posilloa that they will foes no obstacle to the carrying eat of elms artempestestst which I think ought for the interval of the oeuntey to be adopted--(hear)—but the explanation of which I will postpone until • subsequent part of my remarka, when I oome to touch more earterly upon this point. I have considered that part of the deficit occa sioned by our engagements to pay off debts, and which forms, no doubt, reach the more considerable proportion of the whole. But there remains now • pert of that deficit to be considered, which, though not so large in proportion, is of a character that must be dealt with in • severer spirit, benne we cannot commit ourselves to arrangements which may in other cases be justifiable or necessary when the deficit is occasioned—(never mind what may have been the original cause)—by an absolute falling off in the revenue. An abso lute falling off in the revenue must be met by means that will not only supply the revenue, but also place the general condition of the revenue in a sound and satishetory state. (Hear, hear.) This portion of the deficit has, as the house is aware, been occasioned b the ormation of • tax. That tax is one of a very memorable character ma to the exesiderition of which we cannot bring our minds free from considerations which are other than merely fiscal and financial; and further, it dote appear to me that upon the dot Won of the house with respect to this source of deficit will depend very much the future satisfactory management of our public finances. Now, sir, the property and income tax has long end frequently occupied the attention of this home, and I think I may say that it has never cased to occupy the thoughts sad to interest the feelings of the coun try. (Hear.) It is • tax the importance of which is not to be measured by its financial character. Those who pay it do not consider merely the sum they contribute to the Exche quer, but the mode in which it is messed, the manner in which it is levied. From the first moment it occupied the con sidnation of parliament down to the present time, it has been felt that great social and political prindples an bivalved in its character and in its incidences. (Hoer, Mr.) It is not necessary for me to remind the house of the manner in which this tax bas been habitually described in parliament. The strong epithets which have been used to denote its elements, and which the greatest statesmen have not hesi tated to employ, are generally admitted to be true. That it is unjust, unequal, and inquisitorial, I believe all of us have felt and most of us acknowledged. (Hear, hear.) There are two classes of reasons why the Income tax should not form • permanent feature in our finances. The first class I may call domestic , . The wooed, are considerations which are rather of an external character. The feeling of the community generally as to the iniquity, the illjllll/ICC, and the odious character of this tax has unfortunately been sanctioned and confirmed by all those statesmen who have felt the necessity of levying it. They have admitted that It would he impossible to maintain it for any considerable time, or to adopt it as a permanent feature of our financial mo tets. without great acerbity of feeling being excited In the public mind, and much angry controversy in regard to its charade, and tandems. The moment you talk of esta blishing it permanently, you have • crowd of angry oontro• melee springing n on such points as whether there should not be a differentia between properly and income in its se mannent—(bear)—whether, if that difference is not acknow ledged, a difference should not at least be ad mitted between permanent incomes and precarious incomes— whether there should not be • difference in the rate of assess ment upon the income derived from trade, and that which Is derived from professions—whether a poor man should or should not be exempted from the tax altogether, and what • poor man is—(laughter)—what is to be regarded as in come, and what as wages—who should be exempted and where the line of exemption should be diem, ath wh'etber it should not go so far as to exclude all but those that NV called rich. The are some of the topics of tzestroverey which always arias when the income tax becomes the sub ject of diecutron—these are some of the objections which are brought forward egainst it. True, they have not pre- ' Tailed; and why not? Because in 1863, after considerable agitation, after • committee had sat far two years on the subject, and all sorts of plane, devices, and expedients had been considered for placing the tax on a more satisfactory footinsbaneminent member of th ie hone brought forward sweat financial scheme, in which, acknowledging the impossibility of reconstructing the tax on principles of Pieties, on priaci plea which would satisfy the fair demands and expectations of society, he brought forward a plan which secured its gra dual diminution and final extinction at the and of • certain number of years. (Loud cheers.) And, sir, as to that plan ao brought forward with consummate ability, and supported In the house by en overwhelming majority, there was no doubt • oeavfiioa througlaciat t ilep üblic mind that fa its span the es it e would be carried Into abet, and that financial icy then brought forward wee use which the parlbuneet of this country had acknow ledged, embraced, and sanctioned. (Cheers.) Ido not want to overstate the case—it is not my interest nor is it my incli nation to do so. I will not say that there was any compete entered into between the parliament and the people on the subject that was to be i t of all circum stances and of all .vents -that Abe an idle and untenable positioa to ammo t, str, then =.Bc:Mlle:4 was an STRIIIIIPMent cordially made rdbaly un derstood, which the country would be fulfilled, were there not the la of extraordinary circumstances to render it implinfbis. When these circametances did occur, when the mmt unload emergency arse which prevent ed the carrying ast af that lifTennelnen the isuoi , o w fvit ha huse t p d dn i the d th apbosintry e peollewwdohrwitobithsespritedialowwwwwed. when westhest (Stamped Id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE. baser and disinter:Teets oltbstiountry were at Make, what did r the people do in' reference to the scheme which the right lee. smebsr for the University bad brought inward, which t had sanctioned, end which the country had age - M il Mepted—what did they do? Not ealy did they con- I met that that errangement should be arrested in its progress, bet that very tax wee mode the some by which the =sour cif the country was meta Iced. (Chem.) Did the people murmur? Not one = them ; and what hod taken piss in re ference to this tax proved =mistakeably that when= mer ging arose there was no =orifice which the polio wlekl sot ' make, no tax they would refuse typal, to optima the Memo and the interests el the country. Maur.) As the how Is aware, the tax wed isoressof by a large &motet, and who the country urideestood the aectissity fm' it, eat a murmur wen heard, nor until peace was restored was there say all for • cessation of the war tax. Thee, but not dB then, was the dem= made that the errangements made in 1863 should be carried Into efts= There Is no doubt that the war has °masked • Mimeos of abestesiMates in the financial posi tion =elm semery free that whisk existed et the time when thisesseemless= woe peep=ed sad adopted. The poems neat charge es ewe* ad the pebble debt has increased con eiderably. Thies era temedossom like those Exchequer Beads whithr_ gm= Ss *OA sail which no doubt are impedi ments den bid Piet, *sms wire these views were held out. neat .1111.1.1111 which sensible people will accept for nos delight their dhariantice or extinction of the tax, but *bey ars pausal for which the people will amlaresel She. Isiemisment ot 1863 ought to be &ban doped. (Her, beer.) I cm= help thinking that--looking at these dams= cosaiderstices, and remembering that the peocipiss sad teoldsainas at the tax were such as gave rise to touch piddle desstiodeelos, sad which are likely it coetineed to =hem the penes seed—it is highly inexpedient on Somme ipestai thst the Imam tax likOald permaseatly form put des tlsesibpatty. ties, bear.) The se to the other grownds, whisk at. not cheeped by a great national otilmolty, but which wee from outmost ciroum states* and political considerations—is ft not of the highest =porton= that the sovereign of this country should be able, with the commence of parliament, notwithstanding the im mense revenue that is raised to support the vast establish ments of the country—thatake should be able, on the by • touch as it were of • spring, to mem a source revenue which in the moment of emergency would yield 20 or 26 millions of money without exciting • murmur from • single person—a sum equal to the large= loans raised by • foreign potentate, and which ;have nearly exhausted the resources of a great coun try ? (Haar, hear.) Is it not important that the sovereign of this country should be able, when the emerging to commed, without having recourse to •km a sus to 20 or 26 millions of money ? Meer, hear?.) That le • reams drawn from political causes why I agree with all those who have maintained, as the right honourable member for the University of Oxford has maintained in more unequi vocal langsage than any one, that the income tax is not adapted to become • parmaneut feature in the revenue of the country. (Cheers.) But, str, though these may be my opinions, and though I cannot but believe that they are else the opinions of the great majority of this house—and though 1 cousider, upon grounds of the highest political expediency, that the errangements of 1863 should in spirit, if not abso lutely in the letter, be carried into effect—tt is still possible that the country, though anxious to obtain this relief, and though it may have confidence that parlia ment really end sincerely intends it—the country might not be altogether unprepared if there were a deficiency in the revenue of the year to submit to a burden the same as that of last year. It might be said, There is • great deficit before us, the revenue is not go flourishing as it was some time ago ; and II we retain the income tax at the same rate as last year there will= still a deficit ; and let us trust to the future. (Cheers and • laugh.) Bat that is the view of the me which it is my duty to place before the house. (Hear, hear.) We have in our revenue • deficit—not arising from en is to pay debts, but from the cessation of taxation, whkL must be supplied by taxation—and that deficit would be converted into a surplus if the country thought proper to continue the income tax for another year at the same rate as it stood in the lest. They might do this with • sincere intention of carrying the right hon. member's (Kr. Gladstone's) plan into effect. But there are ! other considerations which ought to influence na In theft mettles. The country has behaved extremely well during the last five years. (A laugh.) Tba country has behaved exceedingly well during the last five years in the matter of taxation. (Hear.) Ido not think there Is any instance— certainly there is no occasion in English history—in which en much public spirit has been evinced by the community in regard to taxation, as has been shown within that period. No doe= the country generally has this question of the in come tax much at heart. They have, for a long time, Indulged in the belief that, notwithstanding the adverse circumstances that have occurred, there has beefy — en the part of parliament, a sincere inten tion to get rid of time tax—(hear),—and I cannot but suppose that if I were to ask you to: r e:St: d emur which would bm an easy manner of again your promise to pa sing sad to get oat of your ties by agar a law to prevent the neeisron which the right hoe. member for the University roared to the country, of the diminution of the rooms tax—l oannot but think that if you accepted such a proposition you would take a course that would sour the public mind, and that when a great emergency again arose, you could not awed with the same recess to the same cordial confidence tibia on this occasion bee met the minister who had the direction of the finances of this country. And therefore, sir, I have to announce that it is the delibe rate opinion et hat Majesty's ministers that this deficiency in the revenue ought not to be supplied by proposing an increase to the income tax. (" Haar, hear," and cheers.) But, says Mr . Fitzroy, if the fall of the income tax is not to be disturbed, if the income tax this per is onl to give us a revenue at the reduced rate of 54. in the you d.we pro- pose to takethat course—(. bear,bear," and cheer)—the house must feel that it is abeolutely necessary to preserve the revenue of the country by the imposition of new taxes. (" Hear, hear," and murmurs.) I - know I may be told by some gentlemen that we can obtain relief beat by the reduc tion of expenditure. (Hear.) Allow me, however, to say that reduction of expenditure is not a task to be undertaken in haste and heat. (Hear, hear.) It requires time, deep end protracted and minute investigation, and although it may be very possible to effect certain reductions by proposi tions made to the house at any moment, unless such pro potionit are founded on mato% Investigation and ample knowledge, they could eel) lead to • fatal reaction of ex penditure. (Hear hear.) We have made reduction, in expenditure, which are not without consideration as to their amount. I say that the reduction of 800,0001. which we have made this rear is an item which is not to be despised. (Hear,bear.) Bat let me impress on the committee, as I have den said on previous occasions, that reduction of ex penditure depends on policy. (Hear, hear.) It is a false idea to suppose that a body of men, even though they be ministers, can meet in a room and alter the expenditure of the country, which after all must depend upon the policy , pursued by the country ; and if you sanction a policy which tends to the probability of invasion, which necessitates the keeping up of expensive armaments, producing &consequent expenditure, you cannot expect to deal effectually with that expenditure unless you also deal with the policy which has produced it. (Hear, Ur.) I say this in order to chow that a real reduc tion of expenditure is a question of thought end MO ma t, and is not to be dealt with in baste and with the deliberation only of a few months. (Hear, beer.) I say that it has been impossible for us to deal with the ranks of expenditure effectually since we have been in Mika— (bear, hear)—and I say also that, situated as we ere, we must deal with it in the bast anenaer we can ; and to tell me that I must make rednecks, in expenditure, unmindful of those that we have actually made would not be a candid course en the part of the com mittee, and I do not believe that any gentleman will call upon me to do so. What we have to do is to maks our re venue and expenditure meet now and when we hen= tarty and time to submit our 'patens of taxation to and under favourable circumstances to make considerable re ductions in our expenditure; but it would be worse than mockery were I to pretend to tell the house that I could at this moment male any considerable reduction, and that without thought and consideration. (Hear, her. ) In the ungracious office of selecting a new tax I am at least some what upheld by the consolatory conviction that every person who is called on to pay it, either directly, or indirectly, will feel the benefit of the reduction of taxation which occurs this year by the fall of the income tax. (Hear, hear.) When we remember what the country and the hove has expended of late years, I hope the committee will not forgot, in considering my proposition, that we start with the fact that by the operation of law the country is entitled to, and will soon enjoy, a oonaiderable diminution of a tax peculiarly odious to the people of this country, and which benefit the country will measure, not oely by the immediate amount of remission which is to take place ' but will also accept it as an earnest that the policy of 1853 will be carried out. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) The mode by which I propose mainly to attempt to supply the deficiency which remains is by asking the house to agree to a proposition which, it appears to nee, Is reasonable and wise. I ask the house to agree to equalise the duties on spirits. (" Hear hear," and murmurs.) The committeerecollect that ere have been legislating on this subject now for several yens ; and we cal reqnently have great experience to guide us with reser to the course we should adopt and the result we are likely to attain. In 1863, the duties on Scotch and Irish 'perils ems raked, with great benefit to the Exchequer, with an increase of oonsumption, and without any addition to illicit distiUstien. In the following year they were again raised, at equal rates and with the same results. In 1865 the right hon. gentle man the late Chancellor of the Exchequer the duty on English and Scotch rits • an again co the advantage to the 111111111_111114 an increase of consumption, and no addition to flEell distillation; but, strangest of all, with the greatest bard to the Scotch, whose duties were raised. (" How, beer," and laughter.) This may appear to be a paradox, bid it is a dry fact, for by the raising of the duty they wee freed from as embarrassing and injurious restriction, end had the fall benefit of the English market. Since 1866, the duty on spirits baring been raised, and an equalisation tithe duty on Broke spirits haying taken place, and a differentia duty remaining on Irhit Write only, the result has beta most satisfactory, end has been obtained, on the testimony of those who are acquainted with the fact, without the slightest appearance of an increase of illicit distillation. Look at the pakten in which Ireland Is placed at this =toast. The only differential duty which 'emanate existence be tween Ireland and Great Britain is the duty on spirits. I am sure then that my Irish friends who ars always for jus tice to Ireland—(lesighter)—and who deans that phrase to mean complete Identity of imatitslicent, rights, and dna* wide the met of the United libligeorn, cannot on random consider the difference which it caused between the two counhiss by this duty but will hangs of Indignant bumf- Baths. Hear, hear," and laughter.) I remember once *Mg at Bristol, and &Wags ship which, having arrived from Inland, was boarded by mnesrous cnatom-me offices, and the crew ware tweeted just as if they were a parcel of foreigami—all because it was s to ti fm : asale ted in.ifld l anth ;l a s y hm aolrdria4g a i n naryal ar losPnbits e " d a shous uyll44."7d oe s thishatetansecealptlided? position ( 6.7 i h r iast " ili an :rl : laughter.) How much hatter it would be to have the com mend of the English merlus, and not only that, but of Great Britain also, and this be enabled to compete with English and Scotch spirits; and indeed of haring a me tricted commerce, be able to export dash admirable invention, which I understand the French prefer to heady, and to pear it over the world, thus giving a great stimulus to the trade of their country. I believe, therefore, that the peeps /Dion will be acceptable to the house, and that there will - not be based from any of my Irish fr iends • single murm ur with regard to it. (" Hear hear " and laughter.) But if there is a murmur, I ask them to the zooid ow , l spirit—fame hughtar)—to consider first the patties of the Chsnoelfor of thisExthequer, and next with what pride and satisfaction they will be able to return to their nati•e country, and to . tell their constinsethe est when the income tax with whisk they were visited, not by me—(hear, hear)—but white somehow or other got fastened round t heir mocks, has berm nearly shaken off and that that real badge of the yoke has been nearly got rid of that a fatal blow hes been given to it, and that they will find in that cheerftd circumstance ample - compensation for any annoyance they may receive by the proposed alteration of duty. (Laughter.) I hope by the equalisation of duty to give to the Exchequer 600,0001., which is the amount of deficit which remains. (Hear.) I am much obliged to the house for bearing with this state ment, which the house will remember is one of no ordinary description, for I have been obliged by analogy to deal with a great deficit. If the course I recommend is sanctioned by the committee, that deficit will have disappeared. (Hear.) We shall have put an sod to the war sinking fund, or post posed it to a happier time, when It shall be paid out of MOWN j we shall have dealt with the Exchequer bonds which are caning due, andwhieh present an obstacle to our nomads& system being put into order, sad by equalising the duties on spirits we shall have entirely terminated the deficit. I think however, that we should also do something for the revenue in the shape of surplus. (Hear.) I shall not press much on the resources of the country or traipse, much on the patience of the house in this respect, became the state of the balances in the Exchequer I. very satisfectory, and a large and unusual amount will be added to them this year. N, move ; if I had chosen to avail myself of it, &stun of 400,00 61. might fairly have been brought into the revenue of this year. But I thought it beet not to attempt to bolster up the finances, and I prefer that the case should be understated rather than overstated. But I may say that the Bast India Company, which is indebted to the state 1,600,0001., has already repaid 1,100.0001. of that sum this year, and there still remains 400,0001. to be paid which I might fairly have put into the budget, but It will be certainly paid into the Exchequer. There is also a repayment of advances which cannot be less than 600,0001. There are moneys to be paid on account of the sinking fond and interest on the Sardinian loan, so that a large sum will be paid into the ba lances in the Exchequer, which at the end of last year were in a very satisfactory sta te. So that having shown this Mate of the Lehman to the hones, and asking the house to remember that in m estimate of the revenue I have scrupulously retrained from taking any other than the moat narrow view of the resources at my command, and that if I bad chosen to say more I might have exhibited more cheerful figures looking to these cir cumstances, I might have thought it not necessary to trouble the committee with regard to a surplus. But I think that a surplus ought to be provided even though it be a small one ,• a small one under the circumstances of our finances will suffice. Ne taxation is more popular, so far u I have been able to gather from conversation with those who may be sup pored to understand the subject, than an addition to the stamp duties ; it is of taxwhich on the whole causes leas annoyance than any other, and is rather popular than otherwise. (" Hear, hew' and laughter.) The peony postage has created a desire to see great results achieved by smell means, and therefore I propose that whomever we draw a cheque it should have a stamp upon It. (Cheers and murmurs.) Now by one who ou such a sub sasher, that I may count the sum to be derived from this ameaulthaorim to ured and into the samom Thal nay b. 00.60.. e made to this proposition, but every men who demo a cheque must remember that he pays a 6d. instead of a 7d. Income tax, with a prospect of its rotors extinction ; and that in re turn some sacrifice must be made, and I hope the com mittee will epee with me that this is a mode of taxation to which there should be no objection • and consi dering the position of the Exchequer at this mo ment, I am not prepared to ask the house to impose any othre tax. (Hear, hear.) I would ask the house to remember that I have to consider what will be the position of the country with regard to its finances in the year following this ; for any one occupying the position I have the honour to hold would greatly fail in his duty if he did not exhibit some foresight and bestow some consideration upon the Maumee which his propositions would have on our future prospects. If what I have proposed shall be agreed to, let us see what is the pros peat of the following year. You will have the income tax suffering from a diminution of one million, and a deficiency in the revenue to the tame amount, end you will have two millions of Exchequer bonds. You will have that two mil lions reduced by the amount of the surplus of the year, but we will say that in all you have three millions to supply. I pat it to the hones whether that is a prospect which ought to alarm us. (Hear, hear.) Can we doubt that owing to our commercial prosperity, we shall obtain a revenue with which, Sided by wise and well-considered retrenchments, we shall be able to meet our engagements, to pay off the Exchequer bonds, and overcome the difficulty muted by the diminution of the income tax. If you are able to do this, in what posi tion will you dud yourselves in that famous year of 1860, which has been made the pivot of modern finance ? In that year you will have to pay one million of Exchequer bonds, bat; in that same year the cessation of 2,160,0001. of annuities will come into play, and I believe that you will be able in the spirit, if not in the letter, to accomplish the plan of the right hon. gentleman the member for the University of Oxford. In order to do that—in order that nosegay act fairly by the people of this country—and in order that the wise arrangement of the right hon. gentleman may be effected, and that great policy accomplished, I shall propose not to encumber the year 1880 or 1861 with the payment of the Exchequer bonds we must inset, but that 4 1882 and 1863 a payment of one million shall be apportioned to each of those years, If that is done, I have no doubt that the policy of 1843 will be carried out. I hops, when the committee recollect the expenditure of the conntry—when they know that at the end of the year, end indeed so late es when l mourned office, the estimatid de ficiessey wee not lees than 8,600,0001., I hope th e committee will, on the whole, not be dissatisfied— (cheers)—when they see that by some judicious retrenchnisota, by propositions which I cannot doubt are mound in principle and judicious in appliestion, the immense deficit which has depressed the one gy of the country has been dissipated, and that, too, with a remission of taxation with respect to a particular impost most odious to the people, snd in a meaner which guarantees, I trust, the entire accomplishment of the policy of the right hon. gentleman the member for the University of Oxford. (Hear, hear.) I would hope that these propositions will be re ceived, not only with candid consideration, but that after due discussion they may even meet with the cordial acceptance of the committee. The right hon. gentleman coa eluded amidst considerable cheering, by moving resolutions in soxedance with the view he had enunciated. Mr. GROGAN eulogised the plan of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but found fault with the increase of the duty upon Irish spirits as leading to illicit distillation. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY did not see that any provision was made for the expenses of the Chinese war. The Chan cellor of this Exchequer bed done well In not interfering with the Income tax. Mr. DEASY hoped that the proposal respecting the In creased duty cm Isiah spirits might be postponed, to give done for its coneideration. Sir G. C. LEWIS said that some form of sinking fund ought to be misfiled ; otherwise there would be no prospect of the extinction of the debt. He should. however, reeterve his opinion till the bill wee before them. The postponement of the Exchequer Bonds was impossible. They must be paid. The Chancellor of the Exchequer must preppie a vote In supply to meet this payment, which would only be areating a loan fora limited period. Mr. PAGAN thought that woe little would be gained Asa the proposed equelisation of the spirit dutiee. Mr. WHITESIDE did not believe that illicit distillation would be cocooned by the increased duty on spirits. Mr. WILSON said that the spirit duty in Ireland had been exceptionally high, and therefore the Chancellor of the Exchequer must not count upon the sum he had suticipated from this quarter. The stamp upon cheques would greedy interfere with the proper economy of capital. Mr. WARRE likewise objected to the stamp upon cheques more than usual let year from exceptional causes. He disapproved of the stamp on cheques, ai throwing hin dramas- In the way of business and preventing the d" etymon of capital. Mr. 11'MASON hoped that the resolution respecting Irish spirits vela be retread. 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