The Express. — London, England, 1860-02-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EV EN! NG, FEBRUARY it, 1860. to the irk p.n.s is this cons try, where you have . got law which melee it impossible fur the poor man *hen tut ei,k to obtain that article miss he happens lobes in the neighbour good of some eherlialtie tries& who will give it io Tea r (Hear, bear) soy, irk the molten °Mien of year poor - Isle melees whet sort of wise is my plied no beards of gmardiens for the workhouses ? ask the surgeons is ear any what 10a of • toe they can procure for t h e i r p o tt eo g e , eves is the 1.1 ieree's ships I harp the r Carr day to bees Ord her ilejoity's ship &verge, noon an actideet had Ironed to one of the orlon; I err the man when be was recovertni from ea operation, mid I asked the serge.. , 1 be ha I ordered eine for him, sad what wise It was, ..„ ti I gin his the wine of oar WS IMP, f or we caste s Ore him the wits of the ship." Time, to eon. we w h ine h e saseet, be took me ti the stoned the skip, and leered as my driers; hall a glees of that wise; but I acne yes it ear ouch that 011114 only drink it with very gnat diMealty. (Leaghter.) Now, of smiles that wir e r bored s (yie lea ship, does sot pay duty ; It la rhea get of hoed ; bet )oar system of the wise duties Otiose the witted trade, escort with ri g.rd to the higher sad most opensive emirs el wham, end makes it almost impossible to obtain a mead (platy. 1 therefore do not think the grommet re quire to make math of as spol for this proposal of an eff. , tuel felosamitios of the wipe duties. I have sow gone throe& the priscipisl heeds of the commercial treaty with Treace. I do not think the friends of free 1, 4 a, or those who are scsiosi fur the retraces, will Ind task with the provinces of that treaty. I believe yes serer were called upon to make an immediate ascribe of moose which promised to be more productive of good. (Cheers.) I believe that the trade which will be crewed will be Immerse. I know very well that to the country the 'spoon:ea e 1 trade, sad the se arty brought about is the psb)i. estaiThmente by the aboliiion of dating on SSW &stared roods, will be the poet obi. eta I know, also, that you all vales the facility of Missal intercourse with the continent ; I on tell you this the cheeps we propose to make In the NMI will interned facilitate that intercourse, cod will .snob, the weitems to withdrew the greater part of the assoyieg reetraints which they an now swami* etiliged to impose. (Cheers.) I cannot pees from this sub ject of 'benefit. b treaty without palings tribe% ofteopect to two resins, a' keel, who have been engaged in it, or who SIP rattier the anther of It. I sat bound to bear this wither, at say rate —for the Impart of the Fres* that be has gives the meet unequivocal proob of sincerity end eareesteas is the punier of this roe work. sot se a work mainly proescuted fur toe rake of the Extelint a:liasos, bet as a greet work of patricides. And os the part of Mr. Cores, eroding now at a time whim every angry make which was one. consertod with hie seise had been appored. I rear help ezporieg our • ire of obligs'ios le Ws for the Lamar which, at per parossal secrilles, he has gone though Is btisgieg *beat a measure which he, sot the least sasses the spielers el free trade, believes to be one of the pastes triemphe it M. ever achieved. (Cheers) Happy indeed le the mem who, haviag ones, afro years age. romisrod Its kis room see sash great sad sigsal 'steno of shoat loaves dibble tarmisAbirsow span had it is hie power, usdesersied end unrewarded by theerows, reeved by se didactics el teak sr title from the potpie to err he lialssgs e to conhr nem the yews sad the people smother and Imirertaat erred,.. (Lead sheen) It wee proposed (the right goatlemea wiatiaued) to erre other air ✓ens Jesies as the magas of 910.0'101 but tamped, that MIS by ether kapadtleme me Inds. Tao duties se he abolished woe them ea batter, meow , ekes e, omegas sad Mmes, sa l s, tr., which aminined to 300,0001. a year. Them woe to he redwrime of duties o• timber bee la sod Si. as curnmis M is. a cwt.. Mime to 7.., Ike le 75., and bops from 43e. ti Its., a.klag 668.0001.—the total reamers being 1.019;401 The release, to sempenema for this lores wool! be sought Is as exterior ef peony texatioe, and them would be levied se all p.okages of imported articles a tee of as. prosy oath, which would truism 300,0004 a yew. Madam* charnel were to be laid os operetioes in the .geese of wasehosaing, • proms which would simplify the spina of freed boodieg. Tele would predate 120,0001. Van there would be a daty of Gs. • owt, es chicory, Odra( 90,000/. Is tel laird revenue we proper (he mid) • stamp of Id. ern sure kw the sale of lonise and salmis! Toler, end epos beakers' semetact notes maimating to 10J,O00/., and • stomp of &L arm dock warrants. There is al .0 to be • redaction cif the egreement strap boat 2., ild. to Id., together with • toped of the 201. auseptioa, leaving a gain of 20,001. The a-it id • change apes which I meet dwell for • chart time. We propose to give to settee-60am' of all demvirioes, whether sada that same or nadir the same of pasery-oceita, boesses, for which dry will pay very law wet—with • power of taking 1101112 en at their option from the excise, to be bed awl payment of • certain sow of mosey for the pu,p 4« of authorising them to sell wins end beer. (Hear, hear.) We think It is sweetie' to giro elect to the wise duties, that firm) facilitise should be provided in connexion with the ale of eatables, wherever it I. ear led on, end we ihink that the change will be os the whole favoureble to sobriety. (Her, bear.) The man who can gee Ms glans of wen or beer (tad the provision will apply equ to beer) in cense:he with hie neoterry ford, In an city meaner, le not likely to resort to other places. (Hear, beer) We sloe pupae that the duty shall be doubled upon Over horse which keep open after twelve et night. Truth, r • am • variety of mioor,-liospe with which it will be scarcely cc, ...eery to trouble the committee. Ws pupae. to treat banish'« beds is dowlesd se pots malty ander all the lows &polar...Ai toe leeele:011. We ales propose a small dry ups We tres .fee of the property of oespalliee es the com b oh entice, which tree hitherto reaped all payment. We further prop... to reduce the duty ere gems certificates, (Hem, hmr.) The present duty is acknowlefired to be far from rtielectary. At protest sot more then 34,000 persons p.y the duty, and yet Se use ma go out shooting for a single day without taking out • game certificate for the ow e year. but the seuroduce sad obvious result is this, that there is • very numerous elms f persons who assume the laharty of shaman without this oeri.limte. (Mob laughter.) We are n • .tole In Web awl the soon. Iv healred of them parer. at preinst ; we may succeed is cstolitior mote; bit we sandpits that by this sirens we ern rye relief to the extent of 60.0001. At the mow tone it is presumed tcere will be no lose, bat a gem pitted t 1 swam of 10 0001. Instead of one certifier r ease 11, that will be one watiflose ev.ileble, it lakm eat co the let Arrow, for toe whole einem, cooling 31.; if cm the let October, retro 21.; if takes out for, en red Aar the let Derneb-r, 11. (lime the rod of esammartea toe house in.e• rutted tk• right an. antaaan for several secotvici We propose to remove the exemption which still r. nut u d after the mmomen of the eight hoe. geotletnes opposite with regard to stamps epos Obequel. I thick the resale. of that aiserero are somewhat doubtful at pressor. It i. sat passable with our prompt informatics tio test the Soots of that mesons ; but it is quite elm that if it e .show as t h there Is sonars for the sums tii .11 of eh- drawo hr • poem ali hs idc A m a n raft will be this rented. Toe-, will be a strip open err to lite tor err, T tears, which will Void 7,0001. I farther prise. to esoniS all weasel rmes ranee by will, ender general poen.ra of eg poioncier. to Taboo dry, thereby (waned • !want of 30,0001 We oleo propose to remove the ✓umor of crearrysitose by bating societies from gouge, which will somas to 6,00 W; as maim duty spa owe" y, antentne t. 5,0001 ; a defy • extrai•ea tram mount of births, Mahe, and armor, anomalies lo 1 1,6U0f. By them melee, hating aired, MI used aeon open the aumenee by the theft •••••••• winch I haat aseettord to the event of 610,0001., we obi.* • gala aPa tit talent renew to itie event 111 3.9; . c0501 'moor a total gem of 898,0001. The Sett ties which I have to DWI will give plosive te the ommistm. It is set a sat, bet a swig; sad will be stereplable m peellommt as as sistiontim of the wiehe• sal lamotheas of the failtratlit. Tie arise kW the year epee the sereame I ist deers es *Mt , and then will bulbar be a aseteg to tit laird ntaanr, if our ol••••fil• COMM' ▪ ide 36,i Thele the total gais we asVelpite will he !ei s iSCY., stuck friabar with the gam of WOW. fa tare, will erne rounder to 99iAt01. Then bee a• teal to the Tour the pomade post whew wv mead. We nature to toy that the eenstry ery freely . Sport hem the boor, under the circus...V.lKr of tn. pratot ye.r, • taniadon of iudirott Ineartni. (11eer, tone) We have rheas with the peered eery tr.ois what per too id that reser we are .o withdraw • o r es otrestoto l b. t'. • antaist tif the onsulline which am b..* haling is. sod which arreat t, 2,148,0001. Of this seas we hav e sow Jopril ral nether MSS *ea amodli 1.19‘1/40 bas tat Frisch nosy, sad by w BY se niniina. at to the resach nosy, sad In ceder to girt • c ahtto of the aribtian we haw to propos • f tr. hee pekoe, shah will bran a loss of 510 lerf to be oufty••••utif by as. caratee sad savings to the imme , of, I Itism I said, to !JODI. or 0 , 16,000/. C omer await, is will shout 1,101.(001. of adabilos, which, la the mew of the iroveramear, le dee to the trade and la • Chary of lee waists. WI the ?mope whack I have stood ; sad the question in, where should that remission be be stowed ? Well, sir, as we have frankly avowed that we do not thick, on the 111601 e, the gratis( bees& is to be costarred either upon the nation at large or apes the working-dames is particular by the immediate return to thp minimum duties upon tea sad sugar—the duty epos tee yielding died 1,000,0001., and that upon sugar about 1.1100,0001.—a rat do not think that it i s in that direedeadlrat the enneatime will be reedy to great eny relied, l'asa shout to *pose to them the Actium of the ilea* duty upoi paper. (Cliblect4 That duty (the right hon. freedman proceeded t i urge) had been oestlemeed by the House of Commons, and it was besides a bad mid mailable duty. The capability of expan sion of the lade la paper was immeeae. The duty would be abelhhal from Lt July 'lila year. It was proposed to a b o li s h the impressed stamp es aesrepapare. Those - were all the remissions it wee proposed to make. As to hogs, we propose (he said) to alter the system of hop arodit, whkdi to matenable in principle and not team mended by convenlemen (Hem, hear.) The grower of hope who cuts his hope in August or fleptember, sad sells them is October, is ni t called oe to pay the ditty till eat May, when he is called on to pay half the duty, snd he le not celled eats pay the other half tall November, when he ha. said another crop. We propose as a substitute for this system th t the hag grower who has parted with his crop in October or November shall pay the ditty on the Ist of January following. (Hear.) Bat Ia taking up the hop credit as • measure of pressure we the grower, we are going to subject him to pertectly equal tempethis• with the grower of hope abroad. We thought it Hoesany to makes portal remission of the duty, which will as Imager stand at 19s. 7d., but at 14s. The remission of the pine certificate I have mentioned. I mentioned also the chew in the malt deity. It is a prohibition at greeset, bet we pompom to subuitate for that a customs duty of Is. per beelni-25. 84. and .5 per oent. compensation. It may be a more important subject to consider what may be the effect of the chap in relation to the duty on malt and the duty en wine. But after the chap hes taken full effect wine that ie to say wine of the only des,rip does that can compete with malt—will be mote heavily teal titan malt. Mr. Oladstooe then brought Into ens view the melte of them change., supplementary and sailer the treaty. TM alteratiaa sad reduction. he hod propreed would give a total relief to the ...miumee of 1,931,0001.. and woes a net loss to the revenue of 1,108,0001., or about equivalent to toe amount tailing is hem the cessation of governmeot annuities this year. The number of articles which would remain en the Custom tariff would be 48, sad sect year 44 ; egiribe, tea, Wham. ;agar, *Me, olio., corn, currents, sad timber being the petacipat, sad only flftese of the whole being related he wpm& of revenue. He expected to ob eli' 1,400,0004 by taiilag up the malt and hop devise within the year. It wee Impossible to escape the income tax. Is order to *apply the memainder of the deficit of 9,400,0001., we prop o se (he sentioned) to renew the income tax at a rat* higher only by ens penny than that at which yes mese have bed It if we had attempted no remissions at all, namely at 10d. in the pound. (Chime.) The mode of swath& se reseed. the Macao Mx will be as follows: It will to at 10d. in the pound on incomes arm 1601. • year, and at 74. is the pound oe iraismes below that amour. No sew rotaries will be called he wader any of the sabadeles. The las will be taken for eat yeses only. Both with regard to that sad with regard to the tea sod eager dation we wish to nerve the ?meat sad knew diseretion to perlisment, leaped of the It system with regard to the exillemirm ef the beesew lax, ander labials wely earhalf was collected width the yew—these' by law three quarters might be collected, yet by wage only taw half won colleeeed—we shall revert to the low, and collect three quarters of the tax within the year. The consequence of that will be that the become nth of 101. with three quarters collected will give es 8,472,0061., and there will remain due dew the let of April, 1861, ow qaamer's Income est, or 11,1011,011104, swirly the use ma that will remain due by law &hew the lit al Aped, 1800. There is • slight champ that we propose to maim be Ihe sellemion of the income tee, which will prober gems amlig. I proves to asses roll. ways at the head Mime beerd ef seeemberg them In the dis tricts through which they pees. That will be • conventeece to the parties waned a* well as ea advantage to the revi ses, but I do not haw that I seed detain the committee by dwelling upon It. I think, sir, the heart will sow awl... stand how the Baal balance stands. The revalue, after de elneliag the sommissices, and without allowing for what may be sailed the war rates ea tea and eager, will be 68.962,0001. Add the tea and sugar dutiee, at the present rater, arnoun'ing to 2,100,0001., the malt and hop duties, 1,400,0001. ; the income tax, 8,472.0031.; sad these make the total cf estimated income 70,684,0001. The total estimated charge is 70,100,0001.; at that there is en eatim arid surplus of 484,0001. (Hear, bete) As regards the method of proceedioe, as I have shady owed, I shall beg the camittre to pas a ris dation relating to chicory to night. The order in which we shall take the other subjects will be se follows —We shall proceed Oret to that portion of the castanet duties which is involved in the treaty with France. We shell begin with the duty epos wise, sad I can hardly overstate to the committee the Importance both to trade mid omega of proceeding te deal with this matter on the earliest day which their convenience will allow. (Cheers) We rho tld not like to make an unreesoneble demand upon the boom, or upon Individual membered i , . As I am sew speaking es Friday, we could Sot ask the house to give es se earlier day than Thursday next; but we trust that the committee sad iediridael members will approve of our being permitted to proceed on that day with a matter which is so very imp irtant to indletry and trade. (Beer, bear.) We shall then go es with the auppleroenta re...dolma—the monad pia of the plan relating to customs &rim. We shall sect take the resolu.ioes relating to the seise, the stamps, and the taxes i ad we shall shearer& premed to the new Impositions eerier the head of onstom., and to the prithegation of the tea sad sugar duties. Probably before we have gut through that work we shall be in • position to we what progress we have made with the estimates, sad when it will be competent to es to rake • vote tare the Moan tin. (Hear, hear.) lea, a, 1 do sot at all seek to Vane nom the state of elides • solar more avowable than it will fairly bear. (Beer, beer.) I have ende.vonrsd to bring fairly and eleserly law view the most prominent features of the plea will& he goverament propose. (Cheers.) We think it prepeess aa a'nple prorailoa for the public en vies. It certainly gives sanctau to the use of soma subsidiary resoarea, la consideration of the great demands needs tattoo the public, la aid of the eatery names of the year. It Involves a high rats of inseme tax. It abseil se all endeavours to make a settle meat fa a term of yew of the Imams of the nomatry, which we tie set thlak salted to the er.stitie Mate of effeirs; and these espeolay who cherish a hope of usa.eriel redactioes ia ear eapeaditure„ end setae parial retu.n towards sa seeker end more thrifty seals, well, I think, concur in the wisdom awl propriety of this view. It Malys, great te'orms—l obkh se sae will day that they are rat r.lorms—in the Ler, sad • very largo reduction of duties. Leo, test Oct Wet, it timeless that commercial treaty with Free's, Ile which objections may he taken from One polio of view or another, toe whisk we caddently recoraineud be year soaeptenos, awl comider worthy of your app cal, sad suggest en mend ad social, on flemd, commercial, and ea polished guards; sad I must sey 1 mt vale a hope, which smesate to • persuasion, that whatever uay haves. this he... will net shriek from the tusk of endeavouring by mesas d eentelete end courageous reforms, undertaken on behalf of the maim ef the people, end not on betuili of one, bat on behalf of every case of seeisty—oe behalf of the throas—on behalf of the lim quo low of the um/dry—l say I feel rametaced that this dam will not thaw now to eaters on • Is Id and onward atop fa the direction in *shish they ban already reaped such honour sail reward. (Cheers ) By each • course yen will scatter blaming. among the peo ple, yes will be enlarging their means mad girleg velem to *sir below ; yes are mealier to their yews ef respite • billy sod net impairing their honourable self-leprodence. (Cheese.) Three wee a time of old, whoa sovereign. made pregmesee through Its laud, awl st the cry of heralds hasps of clew were spattered smong them. That may have beau a goodly epectede; but It is also • great specie le in the shored elecesasetawee of We times when the sovereign le gambled by the great cosacil of parbareeet to pea win and haselleiel laws which milk* away the shackle" from the area identry. which give eine ineenteres to bonoureele tail, ad which entitle more than ever the institwiona of the *awry to the trotted., the coefidesse. sad lows of a happy tied salted peop4s. (Cheers.) eked let we sly to thaws who are jsetly amens es the subject ef aationd defences, that whet Mods wee together sad give* them lacreerad ooselence in their rakes, and m.kes these fret that they are treated jur ly, sad that we who represent them me laboaring hastily and esreestly fee their good, all that I say fleas so swell, n. fob* au trawitoey part of the Imitated defences. (Cheers) We anemone then AM plan to pmr impartial, your searching inquiry. We di not presume to welts a cloaa spun your ',meanies, but wither do we seek year mesperioa— we sea "Minn but a searching end impartial inquiry. (Hear, hear.) We know oar proposition will receive that inquiry at your haads, and we confidently anticipate it will receive the ocialidence of the parliament and the people. The right has. gentleman, who had spokes fear honey eat down amidst lead chemise from all parts of the house. . The temettion having been read by the Co st Mr. DIALABLI maidee-I take the liberlp tro=etteg the right Ma, gentle n* and the home epee the obis manner in whiellsislider palatal aircametemose le hfimpelf, la which we 4/1 sympathies—Omar, hear)—he his (asocial proposition before the house. (Cheers.) 'Ent the right hue. gentleman haa plates before us • very large aresme, tasting on sabj, Ma of the (realist importance. I sem my Sar ass- Bdeace in the proposition of the right hon. genthesse depot% upon • searching examination of its details. I aster. ter say we do tot sll pongees the abilities which the tigil Ma. makes= does, and to give his premelties the sod marching investigation which it deems& woad C -7 ie pomade in the very limited time he gives us to do se. (Hoar, hear.) The claims of the country no doubt are great —no me hesitates to acknowledge the importune and a•y , of those claims—but we are now dealing with • ilaimetal statement containing elements very different from them of any—even the most elaborats—rcheme which has hitherto been laid before the beam. We have to deal not only with &medal asel commercial mistime, bet, as the right bon. gentleman himself admits, with political rele doss also • and therefore I cannot bat think I sun ex-' pressing th e general esetimeats of the house when I my that the proposal to take this proposition into coosideratioa on Thursday next is oft of an unreasonable nature. (Hear. bear.) Acknowledging that the claims of the country are great, it mum be renumbered that there are Ginnie still more important than the interests of commerce, and I should therefore mugged • lan day for the aocsiderat ion of this roe ' position. I have no objection to bringiag furetssd that bill which is popularly called the Reform bill—(a lsegb)—and I would suggest that the proposition of the right bon. gentle man should be taken Into coasideratioa an this day fortnight. (" Hear, hear," end " Oh, oh I") That is the usual term—it is even someumes three weeks—and there is no instance 1 %Hem, of the moat ordinary financial statemeat for tht; coasolidatioa of which • lee period than a weak woe granted. Bat now we are called upon to deal with a scheme embracing financial, commercial, end political questions, all of a moat comprehensive character, and the very firm night we enter upon the proposition we shall come to a question which all seal the fat* of the proposition. (Hear, bear.) Beside", it hi not merely the oonvenience al members of this home which is to he considered; we are here as th. repressatatives of the people, and our conetitteate have • right to expect that we should consider them (Hear.) I suet therefore impress noon the government that this scheme ought not to be decided in this way, sad therefore I suggest to them to Ix this day fortnight for the °wieder.- tioa of this proposition, • counts which will not interfere With the Reform Bill, which will meet the convenience of the house, sad be most conducive to the interest. of the politic. (lam, hear.) A canversetka followed, in which Mr. Mice, Kr.,l Beadeok, &r B. Northoote, Mr. Borden, Mr. Newdegesa, I Mr. Palk, Mr. Aback, and Mr. Glyn took part, the gentiles being the period at which the distortion on the budget I should take Ow& Lord PALMERSTON had no objection to fix the die cessioa far Friday seat. Sir J. PAYINOTON again urged a farther delay. Aber moms fintbilf dienuesice as the seem point, Mr. H. BEN ruirox said it had bees array smarted by how members that ibe teem] was Mad spa this conetry In a compoldiety maser by ?mace. He asked if say seam sity emeaed an the past of the hour* to ratify the treaty es toe grooad that is. sea-rutillostion would endanger the' 'amicable retail/ me between the two countries? If so, the pri peal now submitted to them wee the most degrading pro p wl which had ever %en made by any government, and he unite) they wne.ld ream • distinct smear oa this subject iron her Milesty's government. After • low woe& from Mr. HolaWsw, who suggested th.t Me commodes* ekes% be mined un Monday, Lord J. HUB(/LL and-1 do not think that the proposal of my right Ms. trilled (Mr. Borsinea) is a convenient ar rang eunst. It will be wry much for toe advantage of the mutter to know Me norrow when the discussion upon the budget wit takeplaces. With reopen to the gamion of the run. earthman opmel a (Mr. Beatisa), I mei , say that he is 1 quite mistaken in sepeedag that the treaty has been imposed upon this country by Fumes. Is feet, it has been for • long tone • nutter of disameicia whether any ruler ul Femme would be bold enough to teopoea to diminish prikenioa, which so calm interests in F ranee combined and organised to resin; but, however, the present ruler of France, easing the denier, of free teas aka all events, of diminishing prohitdoun and protection, connoted to tate steps In that direction, sad las meted hiCminiatersito initiate mama a the subject. The fact MI that some months ago, when Mr. Cobden was swag to Paris he bed • mammal= with me and informed roe that to ha di several frisson to Fusco , %- eluding one person whose name was well known /trope, M. Michel Chevalier, with whom Is wee @axiom to waver's in order to see whether there was say thence of • commercial treaty being secotiated. I told him, as the part of her Majeety's goy:tow • r, that If be could find there was any disposition to dial a . question 1 our bar Majesty's government would be mute ready to muttons. me ga/Wore to Instate each a treaty. Bat the treaty itself my right Loa. friend has explained l am sure in • manner *tech renders it unasoeseary toe any one to attempt to follow him. (Hear, hear) But toe hon. gentleman episode. (Mr. Bewitch) s ake if the rejection of the treaty is to be followed by—i forget exactly weal,— Mr. BENTINCIL—By any probable disturbance of the amicable random between this country and Prance. Lord J. RUSBIILL—. By any probable disturbenos of the amicable reinter% between this country and France l" An argument is that the tendency of this treaty is to promote friendly tektite.. (Cheers.) Is fact we con sider that though there may Le • ogee doting which some of these relaxations may canes some dissatisfaction in this comitry or in Frame, they will gradually and wisely improve those tensity relations which are advantageous to both countries, and t h at the interchange of productions and atanufertares of each other will establish • bond of orlon %mime them, which it sill be difficult to sever. (Hear.) But as to whetter the rejection of the treaty will produce any dieturbence of the keenly relations between the two countries, why the hoe. gentleman is quite as capable of judging as any member of the government, but that there has been any threat or intention expressed the part of Frame to that elect was quite worm-. What, however, any be the effect of very angry speeches gaunt Frazee end of a vote arrest entreaty, it, of course, tit 'moment% fur any minister to say soy more than any one else. - The bun. gen tleman mum lodge hr himelt. The right bun. gentlemen the member for Buckinghamshire said o would be huhly rouveaieut if the discuoima were postponed for a fortaight ; mad If in the meantime, I proposed the Reform Bill. Well, that is not the 1 ant gong to pursue. (Laughter 1 and cheers.) I ammeter that, bottom r anxious I may be to pyaassr that bill, ii is ray duty sot to bring It under ohs ooa.ideection art the house until it has gone through at least all the principal mesa-eras of the budget. (Cheers) I should be sorry if the,, should to any difference of opinion in the house is to whether the diecuseioa on the budget should be poetpmed natal Friday week er the Monday following. Tome are so many bronchi. of the budget to be that it is quite iratmettle that in one night, or I should trunk is two nights, we should be able w s et through the disourim. Tooesfues I think that bun. gar Winn should net delay the debuts I , .nger than Friday next. 'Mr. T. BARING thought its very naformeata thing that the (overeaten should per the budget forward. (Lien, hear.) The result would be unfavoursble to its suceses. This haste mould sward in reality the consideration of the masseres and not facilitate their adoption. bemuse it wand emote • teeing that the 'Manton were et aim,. to tune the budget oft ibe home and the country. (H. se, hear.) Mr. BASS thought there was Du setievel y iiir delay. They might all make up their winds upon the budget by Friday. The probability um that the debete would se ad lomat& Btr J. PAYING TON understood from the noble lord, that seam any circuin.twoem the dscussion open the budget wool l lam pronatenor of rearm. He suggested tint mot bee as that aide of tie hoard would meet hitt ly be narked liferoaley wei-k were tie .d for the oiaressiao. Lord PALM E usTos said he was very unwilling to make say ohmage le the day which had bees stand, but tome was some advantage in ep.e.inting • day that wee utatituouely agreed upon end torwelore, although ha thought it wee a pity not ti take the discussion in Piney, the government would agree to take it on Monday east, with an un ler standing .m both sides tint the &nines should elitrwada go on regularly dey by d .y. Tee emulation was then agreed to, suit the hone resumed. 'APPINB' ELECTRO-SILVER PLATE. PIN BROTH ulti,llson'sotarova by Ppotial •npolub —Worn Calm Works, EnsidSoid , 17 oodll3, King Latini ea o-Allyor !boo so Hord Masi Allyn, Mee. Thrs.o.l7. Liss L =, row g . j. eLlea naiad saws 'bum p l irag ues Maw. Pardon. A L Ld. a. O. a. d. a d. L d. g 7 73 -1 n " 3 ; • I • i 3 0•••• II • • 14 0 :Si 0 27 0 0 a Kti At p aw ara pica IMMO di tbdr ...mss. Is lerdrelarbr *lda direg g =rof roil allver.aisordingc.. 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Irak Mrosms; K Asst mow Mlialas,asdi Mho Me a Marbs Tres.--lal rs im pemirr sore* VAIAITIMMII DAY; sr. .be tree Boot TY larses. RIPI OSSI T iIIe nets iamb% CAUGHT IX • T IL r. —AM tbe Cbiletals• bar ber'. paableeke• melded J• 011 WAN r Ida. or. Har lequin a log Amer. mad the [WOW of the Round Table. Mn.am U. goae, halo. and lbrot; Mb L. Neeke. M W U. Mom L YOKUM, Tau Krim*. A TALI OF TWO INTIM blirmiser Friss Vol. Oars an d Tiro.. Mrs Campbell, Mr [MI ,Uls. Madams Grits—Awl [(NO THRUSUBSASU. TUC LITTLiI PIT ANN TUC OsSAT HT. JAKSI7. Tao Zoom,. A nousiiiciCirrartlf.—ne dew add torn.= burled's,. eseltled Dlo.Yedag; Mendidoce di lodedzo. Clara • Owe. Murray. IDOs Ardis. dad 0•0116 Ilikao..—MY SAMS Id DORVAL Ma Lf db 'Meowed. —Awl A Uk.LD RIOT. RRITARN.• Tn. Itvnum • IITO&Y OF TUB lIII•RT.—TEIS SPIRIT OT LIY►RTY; or. Needs, ►ed PIN., ►ad Kiirope, Ad►. Africa. ►od Awake. Yrrr► hawk. Loafs...Ad Nevrtiate *ails. 0.: tephao. And LA °Milli HAWKS AND IRISH PIOLONS. MOH WATISA AT IAMIAIII ISKIDOK. ram Dal—Mows... 41k. 6810: 6h. lII= trsioraow—llortla.. lib. 3S H. flea the thoroughness, and the solidity of the substance. 'lt was net Up epeselt of a booty theorist, a fanciful pedant, er a formalist bureaucrat. It affected no dainty ignoramus of the vulgar flesh-and-blood world I eat of doors, no superb isolation from the common atmosphere of public talk and popular instinct. Mr, GLADYrosis advanced as any of his fellow-country men might do to confront the objections to the Treaty which were raised before the terms of the Treaty were known. He defended it on all grounds, whether fiscal, industrial, commercial, or political, as a great opportunity for wise and beneficial states manship to aid the cause of peace and civilisation. He defended it from secret and avowed antagonists ; from Protectionists disguised as Free-traders, and from interested opponents who called themselves without exception Free-traders ;" "not," he added, " Free-traders without exception." He defended it from the charge of relieving the luxuries of the rich at the cost of the comforts of the poor by de claring that beneficent legislation consists not in taking a penny or twopence off tea and sugar, but rather in striking the fetters from industry and expanding the field of labour. Another characteristic of this memorable Budget is its de termined fairness and striking honesty of purpose. Liberal in the highest and broadest sense, it disdains to pander to powerful prejudices, or to cater for popularity at the expense of public utility and public justice. It is, in a word, a Budget of principles, not of expedients; bold without rashness, tentative yet not fantastic, confi. dent yet cautious ; decisive as an onward movement but sound in its calculations and safe in its results Such is Mr. GLADSTONE'S Budget of 1860 as a whole; we have time enough to examine its details. Tax interval that has been given for the consider ration of Mr. GLADSTONE'S Budget, before its details are discussed in Parliament, will not be found greater than its importance is a whole deserves. For good or for ill it is undoubtedly a great measure —as a measure of fiscal change, the greatest that has been proposed sinoe the second tariff reform of the late Sir ROBERT FEEL. In • certain sense it may be said to be a supplementary measure to that of 1845. In the fifteen years that have intervened a good many things have been done in the right direction; but no attempt has been made to grapple ►t once and on system with so vast a variety of interests, or to open at once so many new outlets to industrial skill and enterprise. Customs and Excise duties to the extent of well nigh Four Millions are swept away ; and in their stead new taxes upon property and income, either directly or indirectly, are imposed to no greater extent than about one-fourth of that sum. Mr. GLADSTONE broadly laid down at starting the proposition that, as in the present year Long Annui ties to the amount of two millions would expire, the productive energies of the country, which had so long patiently borne this burden, ought to be en sured the benefit of their cessation. In a similar spirit he argued that when, for reasons of inter national policy, we resolved to forego the revenue, or • considerable part of it, arising from foreign spirits aid wines, it would not be just to leave all the advantage of these cheapened luxuries to be reaped by the wealthier classes of society. Accordingly he proposes a new system of licenses for the sal* of those articles by confectioners, eating house keepers, &c., at a reasonable coat, without the interposition of Magisterial control or caprice. A heavy blow and great discouragement is thus dealt at one of the most oppressive mechanisms of mo nopoly known in this country. And so throughout the varied catalogue of changes enumerated in the course of his four hours' speech—all are referable to an earnest and thoughtful desire "to lighten the " springs of industry," and to further the develop ment of new ways of creative toil and the more equal dissemination among all ranks of the com munity of the comforts and benefits of civilised life. It may, perhaps, be said that the Ministerial Budget is not one, at first blush, framed to please the predominant humour of the Rouse of Commons. But, on rthection, this very characteristic will prove its strength rather than it; weakaese. It appeals-- over the heads of shabby-souled oligarchs and captious class legislators—;o the people in whose name they sit and vote. It addresses the pockets and the brains of the constituencies, and leaves the foolish and the factious among the representative body to settle the matter between them as they can. In the manufacturing districts there will, of course, be nothing to settle. Both by the new tariff and the new Treaty with France they will be benefited substantially. Though thirty per cent. be still kept up on the other side of the Channel as a differential charge on English fabrics, the com petitive skill of our countrymen will cheerfully enter the lists, waiving at the same time every rem nant of countervailing protection that exists on our aide of the sea. In the mining districts there is naturally nothing but exultation at the prospect of a great additional market being freely opened for the produce of their industry. And if the shipping ports feel some disappointment at the continuance of ,invidious tonnage and harbour dues upon their ves sels entering French ports, while no such diecrimi &sting charges are levied on French ships in ours, they will at all events be consoled with the reduc tion of the timber duties which have hitherto acted as a premium upon building and repairing Teasels abroad, and by the general impetus given to com merce by the abolition of manifold restrictions on the interchange of commodities of bulk and value. Taking a more comprehensive view of the soope and beating of Mr. GLADSTONE'S proposed remis sions, we recognise in several important particulars solid and unmistakeable advantages to the great body of the people. All the surviving taxes on articles of food or clothing are absolutely brought to an end. The duty on foreign hope is to be lowered to the level of the excise levied on the same at home. For another year the present charges upon tea, coffee, and sugar are to remain ; but hence forth the thrifty housewife will pay nothing what ever to the tax-gatherer on the cheese, butter, dried fruit, spice, &c., which are consumed by her family. Meanwhile it is to be hoped that the abolition of so many articles subject to duty will enable Government to dispense with a certain number of functionaries whose maintenance is now a dead weight on the productive power of the &Ate. On this point indeed we do not profess to be over sanguine. We know too well the devices and excuses that are ever ready to keep up the rank and file of established departments ; arid we believe tha t the watchful vigilance of the public press and of Parliament will be needed to garner in the crop of savings which in this respect Mr. GLADSTONE has sown. The COANCILLOR of the EXCHEQUER has done his part, however; and it only remains for n. to do ours. Without re-imposing the Income and Property Tax, the revenue for the current year is estimated at 60,000,0001. The outgoings are calculated at not leas than 70,000,0001. To meet this deficiency we are asked to pay tenpenoe in the pound on all incomes above 1501. a year, and sevenpence in the pound on all incomes between 1001. and 1601. There are few who will not hear this demand with certain feelings of dissatisfaction ; but there are, perhaps, still fewer to whom it will occasion any degree of disappoint ment. So long as we are compelled to maintain enor mous defensive armaments nobody seriously expects to see an abrogation of the tax on incomes. It is true that some six years ago, before the development of the military spirit in the resuscitated Napoleonic Empire, Mr. GLADSTONE indulged himself and nv with tropes of its discontinuance about this time. But the Russian war and the Italian war have been since then ; and the state of Europe at the present hour forMds alt Idea 'of permanent or immediate disarming. This is em phatically the opinion, at all events, of our propertied classes. Their sentiments and wishes are especially represented in the two Houses of Legislature. They cannot with any show of patriotism or of prudence, therefore, object to pay, when every man in the community, down to the clerk, or poorer curate, at 1001. a year, is likewise obliged to share the burden. EN Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, FEE. 10. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, attended by Lady Churchill, Lord Charles Fitzroy, end Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. D. de ROI., drove out in an open carriage yesterday afternoon, and honoured M. and Madame Van de Weyer with a vieit at New Lodge, Windsor Forma. There was no addition to the royal dinner party yesterday. To-day being the anniversary of her Majesty's marriage, the bend of the Grenadier Guards played • selection on the east tenses at seven o'clock this morning. The Dachas. of rent and the Princess of Leiningen paid her Majesty an early congratulatory vieit. Her royal high ness and the Princess visited her Majesty again in the after noon. The Quests and Prince Consort, accompanied by Princess Alice, Princess Helens, Princess Louisa, and Prince Arthur, walked in the Hans Perk. The Priam of Wales arrived In the afternoon from the University of Oxford, attended by Major-Oeneral the Hon. R. Bruce and Major Teesdale. A deputation, completing of Mr. Joeeph Locke, M.P., Mr. G. P. Bidder, Sir John Rennie, Meyers. C. H. Gregory, J. Csbitt, G. W. Heimann, and C. Manley, h,d an interview with the Right Hon. T. Hither Gibson yesterday, at the Dana the Board of Trade. A deputation from the linen-bleachers and merchants of Ulster had an interview with the President of the Baird of Trade yesterday, to urge on government the propriety of having the dunes on British linens assimilated at ono. to those of Belgium (imported into Prince), sad ultimately to establish instead a Said a *a forms duty of 10 per cent. Mr. George, M.P , and Mr. Watson, of the City of Dublin Steam-Parket C..mpany, bad yesterday an interview with the Right Hon. T. Iltleer Gibson. Despatches were sett yesterday from the Colonial•offite to the Governors of the North American Province,. (FROM LAST xtoar's 0A211711.) WAR -OFFICE, Faa. 10.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Hew• land Hill, Esq., Secretary to the Post-orce, to be an eml4 nary member of the civil division of the aeoond•claaa, or Knhtlits Commanders of ihe Most Honourable Order ad the Bath. _ _ --- FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 24.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Edmund Yates Peel, Eq., now British vice•oooeul at Oran, to be her Majesty's consul at Mahon. _ _ Foanene•oYPlCL, FEB. 9.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Hermann Quosbsrth ea vice-cooaal at Dude, for big Royal Righter the Grad Duke ot Mack leabovveohwerist. The Earl and Countess of Cork entertained at dinner on Thareday last, at their mansion in Grafton-street, the Marchioneee of Clanricarde, Adelaide Countess Spencer, Bon. Spencer and Mrs. Lyttelton, Sir William Ale:wider, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Boyle, Mr. George Cavendish, dcc. Frances Countess Waldegrave has returned to Carlton Gardens from visiting Lord and Lady Taunton at their seat in Somereetehire. The mortal remains of the Dowager Lady Leigh were removed from the family mention in Portman-square, yesterday, to Stone Leigh Abbey, Warwickshire, for interment this day. We are requested to state that owing to the meet ing of Convocation oa Tuesday, the 14th in■t., the Bishop of London will not hol I his usual levee on that day. The National Defence Commission we (United Service Gazette) uuderstand me not likely to oaks their re• port for some time. _ _ The Royal Commissioners for inquiring into Green• wick Hospital here evtmined Admire' Sir Charles Napier, and it is understood that no further evidesos will be taken, the commissioners having exhausted all the subjects eon.. emoted with the e,tablishinent. The report may shortly be looked for. The committee of the Junior United Service Club have called a meeting of the members for the 14th, to con. eider how far it may be preferable to substitute oil and wan candles for the pre-ent gas lighting of the establishment, against which a et rung prot,st has been signed by above one hundred member', who state their belief that gm, used inside • house, la injurious to the eyesight and health In general. The Atheneum says :—" After en inquiry, carried on with the snort honourable and amiable desire to do what Is right under circumstances of wine difficulty, the curious question of the Milton autographs has been act at nat. Lady Cullum's autographs are establiahe I as genuine —Desoto Turner's is allow. The sale by Messrs. Puttick and Simp son Is caacellsd—the copies are retorted—and the facts, aa regsrds these Milton papers, are deed on a solid base." Mr. C. T. Newton is now preparing for the prom a history of hie recent dircoreries at Halicarnassus, Cnidas, and Brancliblre ; Icing the results of al Expaditi a sent to Asia Minor by htr Majesty's government in Ootober, 1356. The work is t 4 be limited to 300 copies, fifty of which are taken for the British Mustum. Oa the 28th of last month, died,at Munich, in her 84th year, the widow of Jean Paul Richter. She married Jean Paul in 1801, and was left a widow by him in 1525. The only Boa of this marriage (a daughter, the wife of Dr. Ernest Fester, Seta at Munich), died mwerably at Heidel berg, where he studied. . E. M. Arndt has left a widow. She is the slater of &Waists:timber, and the poet.. second wife, " the true and breve c impel:don of my lite," as he reyeatedly called her. The new drama to be produced at Drury Lane OR Monday, has been written by Mr. U. 11011, the author of the new comedy of Caught in a Trap, et the Primed: a. Mn, Charles Dillon plays the priucital character in the forth coming piece. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews re-appear at the Haymarket Theatre Monday, the 20th Manisa, in s new comic drama, by Tom Taylor, entitled The Overland Route. The Times playa with the budget, evading any definitive verdict for the present. " Should his budget be adopted, we wish it every success." We can find no ea premien in the article mon explicit then that. The foot and Chrav orle are well pleased; the 'Jerald relive the cry of subserviency to Frai.ce, and the divertiaer, faithful to its antigallicanism, calls for " monster meetiogs," and en outburst of popular feeling which shall at one de. etroy the budget, sad put an end to the minim/old career of its authors. Th. l'reas rays :—" Many of Mr. Gladotone's measures are unexceptionable, and are inch as we sincerely desire to see oarried; bat we doubt whether the country will sanction the sub.titution of high duties upon income and the necessaries of lile, for the revenue nisei upon luxuries, which is to he .sortiloed to the trench treaty. Mr. 01.detone ie a greet admirer ot simplicity in tariffs, sad there is much to be said in favour of his views. But we question whether tariffs may not be too simple—whether it be not wiser to establish our fowl 'lsamu one wile basis." All that the Press of to-day vouchsafes us, is continuums of its absurd " revel.tion." respecting the " French cabal" in the ministry, is the remark that it le hound to acknowledge "that .into that woo circumstances have occurred which go tar t. .how that the country is at last awakening ti a ease id the dangers by which it Is menaced. The energetic protests against the aggrandises meat of Frain*, proiveding from the lips of suet men se Lord they, Lord Shaltesbary, and Lord Derby, and the warnings of the Time., entirely coiumbeg with our own, an puttying syuiptouie of the wholetisane state ot pates Opinion." The select committee of the Lords on the Church rates meet on Thursday afternoon next. Parliamentary returns teemed this morning show that the sun ftrusining to be diacharged of the Sardinian loan i. 4s. ld. ; and that of the Greek loan the balance due by the Gr. k government is 706,9221. 12s. Ild. ARMY INTIMATES, . —.—... la committee of rapply Mr . . 8. HaltBBKT obt doed a vow of 407.8454 to rake goods of wham tomy `realm in 1868 9. The Attorneys sad Sotklrore Hill wee read • around time. MERCHANT SHIPPING --- The following nonotair• atm nominated •• the ...act ram mates en merchant shipping :—Mr. Milner Glboon, Lord Loraine, Mr. Centwed, Mr. Thomas 8.,.. • Mr. Craelord, Mr. Mundell. &r Franew Baton, Mr. &Wm. Mr. Gore Langton, Mr. &mill., k, Mr. Wilt..; Mr. Liddell, Mr. Dalalish, Mr. Franu. Itamoll, Mr. Hugh IsOur, Mr. Al derman Balooroas, and Mr. Liadmy ; power to rend tee per.npo, paper., and rcrord• ere to to the quorum. The house adjourned at had-taiit IL REPRESENTATION OT GATESHEAD.- 00 Wed st y algid, at • sat etang of Mr. Hut:. support -Pa Is enbssa, the followtop ',rotation ma. agreed to That, In tits osailitto of Halo osretiog, thy preeruce of sir. Butt is 0 dirbead oe the day of ulee.l'n t• not neceraty. and We tearltag pledges knelt to ono ovary exertion to occur* Yr. Hates ••••I•otioa." RAIIIIONATION or JUDGE PERRIN.—" We (Free men's Jeeerseel. et guiterdej) undorrtabd Judge Penn hoe pent M he ro.l i ttietim% nod retired tr•au the beach, which b• him ie. laser adoroed by Li. intreptdity, and humanity. He gum of the old liberal roamed, and .brou•h•.ut Ilk, whether et the bar or on the beach, in in the HOLIall of Common.% ouhetteiy exhibited the prune ancompronibing hb rality. As •Cs iwio al judge Le •s..hare praiee, nod m the pe.,,,tiaw busmen...l the Queeh'e &Let% he bat &et ottp-riore. The d. we of his tau sons in ho priers of 1.1. sanity ott og .g4 IS. v.tooroble judge sod &primed hi. spirit..." Terre 1... yet redoing a rinse 'mono en to the our, eater ut .ha k. g g gg g judge, bet those io e rue .ar thot hi Attorney-Goneral will accept the spgrointansit thus vacated. LONDON, SATURDAY, FBB. 11. LAST night the political heir of Sir ROBERT Pen may be said to haver fairly come of age, and to have entered upon an inheritance which, in spite of care. less guardians and hazardous investments,is still the finest fortune in the world. It was augured long ago that upon Mr. GLADSTONE, the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, the mantle of the Reformer of the Tariff would fall, and 1860 was declared by Mr. GLADSTONE himself to be the year in which Eng land was once more to set herself to teach the nations how to live. The 10th of February, 1860, will be long remembered in our industrial and com mercial annals. Even the six days' illness of the well graced actor lent • halo of sentiment to the crowning performance of his public life, for it will be difficult even for Mr. GLADSTONE to surpass his latest achievement as a statesman and an orator. Cer tainly no man needs leas than Mr. GLADSTONE to awaken public sympathy by any theatrical artifice; and when he walked up to the ministerial bench a few minutes before five, with a huge bundle of documentary matter under his arm, it was evident that, in spite of all the doctors, he disdained to wear the nimbus of self-sacrifice, or to look like a martyr who had risen from his bed. There was not the slightest affectation of recast sickness and suffering, nothing that the ladies cage would call " interesting" in the un affectedly calm and resolute walk, the self-pos. weed, unconscious, ready air, and the wall-bal►oced tomes of ► voice that always sounds to us like the dialect of Lancashire tempered with Attic. Yet there was just enough of effort discernible in the skilful accentuation of certain passages to make °ireful listeners aware that it was an effort, and • four hours' speech without a moment's hitch or hesitation was none the less wonderful that it was the speech of a patient who had barely escaped infiemmation of the lunge. To give a man a good name is almost as serious in its consequences as to give a dog a bad one. Mr. GLADSTONE is known to be one of the most finished speakers of our time; be is, therefore, pronounced a •' rhetorician." He is • water of all the arts, and methods, and graces ot eloquence; he never bungles or breaks down ; he never talks bad grammar, loses sight of his nominative in pursuit of a verb, or confounds his relatives in search of an ante , cedent ; and therefore he is dubbed with a doubtful title, which may serve equally to compliment an orator or to stigmatise a sophist. Mr. GLADSTONE spoke from five till nine last night without an instant'. interruption, and we are per suaded that in all that hushed and anxious audience of critics there was not one who could have detected • word too much. Mr. GLADSTONE, no doubt, has often displayed an equal prodigality ot all the resources of mere eloquence ; but he has never given a more masterly proof of the close and pressing logic, the vigorous conciseness of expres sion, the elearnese of arrangement, and the straight forwardness in the way ot " putting a case," which a powerful grasp of his 'eject alone can give a speaker, than in his summary of the results of our financial policy for the last eighteen years. Foreigners are in the habit of remarking and regret_ ting that the Parliament of England has become of late years more than ever the Parliament of European opinion. To speak to such • Parliament in language not unworthy of its history and its power, on occasions when not • nation only but all the world is listening, belongs to few indeed. We venture to say that uu both sides of the House last night it was felt that the Commons of England had a right to be proud of the orator whose words were flying, almost as rapidly as spoken, along a hundred wine to all the capitals and marts of Europe. it was a speech characteristically English, not more in the pare and idiomatic form than in the frankness, P t