The Express. — London, England, 1855-02-21 00:00:00

THE .EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1855. mr , m , a g they were to ask their Prussian consuls to stopping*** eggnisfpeednes from the Rialaille ports. He , as every eousigantent, whether its origin said that tam dig niet elms frees Memel sow, that there mos Rescion eerenesien. Now, did the house believe that fore it OWN' Mil ass., sad that the comma must know w usg be guillaisaMe ? (Hear, hear.) His hon. friend , that it wee Rwetlea tallow, because Prussian tallow sever feenestabeeter llbMgeM said wi th truth that perjury might learns out of them ports. That was an extraordinary area mai trim it, bus he added that they need not be afraid of sent, for it wapitis that if the Prussian* wished to evade, dot. m the Brim houses were among the most rupee- they meld ea*/ retain the Russian tall ow , an d sen d away ogle in the world. He (Mr. Cardwell) would as k how their own. (Hoar, hear.) The ease with Umiak; and Jag the lionise kyle would centimes in the handed those other earn was precisely similar. The bad only to mix b o o (Hear) What would be the benefit of destrnyi ng Russian sore with Prussian corn, sad Russian tallow with ow houses, which the hon. gratleman justly said were Prussian tallow, and it would become Hessian corn or rM the most respectable in the world, and transferring it Prussian Dora, Russian tallow or Prussian tallow, *green) He was afraid that experience of human amen rendering all their certificates of origin purely non- Lld that if they wanted an &Suva of origin it seasical. (Hear, hear.) 11. would not sued taking o tos be obtained at not • high prioe—(laughter)—and an oath that with • pot of Russian tallow, • pot of Prussia. whatever that price might be, it would have to be paid he tallow, and • ladle, he would make Russian tallow late addition to the price of the article. (Hear, hear. ) That, Premien tallow the manner which would defy all such eerti he believed, would be the result of giving certiAcates of Goatee of ongia. (Laud laughter.) He contended that if asigia. But what was the law on this subject ? The law the predates of one country was mixed with the produce of of this isometry and the law of common sense was, that another, it was no longer the produce of the country from partial manufacture made an article a production of the which it originally came. N.pthing in the world was more matey in witch the manufacture took place. (Hour, easy than to make the raw mater al of one country into the bowl His bun. friend felt extremely indignant at the manufactured article of another, and all the certificates of Wide which he said was conferred by this mune of policy origin in the world would never prevent people from doing ea Prussia as a neutral. He (Mr. Cardwell) was surprised so. (Hear, bear) The hon. member for Bridpurt bad le hear Lord Stowell quoted a nth regard to the doctrine of said teat it was perfectly idle to suppose that we should MT. He heal in his egad the commentaries of Chancellor have any competition in the linen Uwe if we shut out all Kent. Chancellor Kent said it would be unjust and illegal the Asx that came into this pommy, because no one for neutrals to avail themselves of the pressure of war to would be foul enough to build • factory when engage in a sew species of traffic which was prohibited In there was • probability that the war would be over in . His honourable friend said be would revive the six months. He (Mr. Ricardo) would warn the country right of search. lie would remind his h hi* that they mast be careful how we eourtad competitors— fund that the - which rested ea how we lost a market—how we *- the - ' - that stated that ea order had been mat out to enforce a strict blockade, the mereheats of Hull and other towns sought tow pply the wont of Russian produce by obtaining linseed from ladis, Atria and eve* Alustralbs. They en • . tend largely tats the speeilatien, sad bad suffered to an enormous meat for the benellt of a few Greek merchants. Why was not tho blockade mimed ? Could ant ono or two stoomme have Wen spared to guard the Strait of Kedah, whisk would have effectually blockaded the Sea of Asoff The lasts did not loam Vane till September but even thee mold not one or awe ship have been spired t The entire system of trade depended on certainty. If lbo country had been told that so blockade would be established, Its capital would soots have developed a trade with Russia through neutrals; but if a blockade is promised and not established, the effect woo the Bossism gained. this neutrals gained, the merchants of this mouthy wore the may losers. It ate peered from a statement published by the Chamber of Commcrce at Hull, that from the 9th of May to the end of December, 462 vessels reached Constantinople having en board 710,000 quarters of linseed : the export had teeth before been so large, so that the only effect of the promised blockade was to increase the trade of Russia. The crop of linseed was gathered in September, so that the whole of last year's crop was already in this country. The only effeirsal blnckade was that of the Danube. Large quantities of cora were imported from dm Danubian Prin. cipalities ' and it was important to supply our troops from thence when eaportatiou was prohibited from Odessa. Yet the Solana mouth, which ought not to be blockaded, was blockaded, and the Sea of ABS, which osghtto ham been, was not blockaded. He would la conclusion, refer to the hon. member for Stoke and the right honourable I gentleman (Mr. Cardwell) wore identical aad most &whim against say blockade. The right boo. made man said we could not do without the raw material of Aussie. and that leo would suffer more by not having it than Ramis would lose by not sending it. If so, why should there be a blockade ? Let that principle be carried out to its logicel emolusion, sad let there be no blockade ; let us not stultify ours/less by pursuing so absurd IL course u oontinaing a blockade, and sanding a lugs form to stop the front door, sad yet leave the doe door open. That was his position, from which he had not bus removed. Mr. CARDWELL wished to know whether the bon. gentleman mesa' that he hid been guilty of a serious error only in argument, or whether he meant a serious savor in Mot. __ Mr. COLLIER—No, not in feet. The motion was then agreed to. FISHERIES (IRELAND). Mr. M'MAHON obssioscl leave to bring in • bat to assi milate the law as to the sea Gout and inland &Intim of Ireland to that of England. The hill was subiequautly read a Int time. RETURNS ORDERED—ARMY. Captain ARCRDALL moved for en address for return of the names of all officers of bet Majesty's army who have been promoted for distinguished service, since the coin tristocernent of the war in the Crimea, distinguishing be tween officers on the staff and rakers reeving with their regiments ; stating also the roirei.tae tanks tv which they have been promoted, the particular services upon which they were employe.i during the battles of Aims, Ralaklava, and Inhernmon, and whether they we.• actually ecgaged in any of the above actions. He believed the effect of the return would be to dissipate the stigma which had been cast on the staff officers. On this motion of Mr. BRADLAX, returns of the re gulation price to the purchase of a commission in the bins end in a cavalry regiment; of the regulation price for the ourchase of each subsequent step in the service ; of the annual pay of regimental officers of all grades; ;whether an_y, and, if any, what portion of the money paid by an officer on the purchase of his commission is returned to his respocsib.iity ... - taught ... pefplo ._ ...oz. no would Oily, in concensito . r thus who had such great unlettakings to conduct th ole wag ano th er market to which they might reticle ; for the sickli7eltimentality that had spared Odes s a. The would consul them to confer with their ally, and possibly it was ass easy to get it back again when it was ones Emperor of Russia had collected large supplies there, and to consider ths operation on • powerful neutral country of • lost. (Obsess.) He would like to know how the boa. gen- why were the not destroyed ? They would firs in his rigid insisting on the right of search. ( Hear) But he would Mem who bad advanced that argument reconciled it with batteries and kill his am, bat the property was not to be. ask whether those who to strongly condemned • policy which, the statommil that ws should get all sorts of material from touched ; they would destroy all property at sea, but would natter ths circumstances of the case, was inevitable, other ismitriss independent of Itmaia—from ladle, from not touch it on lend, whew* they ought to dest roy it. Lit would contend for a policy which would create now mutt Belgium, from Ireland ? If he (Mr. Ricardo) ware to say them have one thing or the other ; either let trade be roe futons in Prussia, which would make Prussia the owner to those woodsmen that no man in India would be foul fatly free, or let there be a strict blockade. of the flax and the boiler of the tallow, knowing, as they enough to grow hemp when then was • probability that Mr. HEADLAM had, in May last, ukeed whether a did, that the Germans were their groat rivals in the limn the war would be over in six mouths, or that no man in blockade would be enforced in t h e Baltic and Black Seas, trade, and knowing that there was • country between this Ireland would grow it under such circimstancas what as his constituent' were deeply interested. Hi was told am sountry and Prussia which was eminent for its pro- would they any? (Hear, hear.) Those hon. pullet:au tffeotiv• blockader would be immediately pot in forgo dunces is the article of @turtle ? (Hear, hear.) But, urged that Ireland bad been forgotten; but he would Awing as that statement, his constituents sought for sup. *repotting they were determined to proceen against Protasis ask whether any man in Ireland would be so foolish plies in different quarters, at an exorbitant pries; but they in this matter, bow far did they intend to go ? Became, as to put his property ender flax cultivation afterwards found the same articles introduced by the Greek really if they wanted all Reason raw material to be pro when the war would be over in six months, merchants at • low pries. They would not have complained Whited, sales. the consul certified that ao potties of • and lbs harvest might toms into competition if the blockade had been interrupted by accident, by &unit partial manufacture emanated from Russia; that in the with Russian flax. And now he would come to ths main of the manes 's fleet, or by a violent tempest. No sufficient use of a brush, for example, no bristle in it cam from that point, for the bolos ought to arrive at • clear understanding reason had been given why the *Mars, which be pteaaaed country, how could they prevent this article from coming upon it. What had bum laid down by the two hon. gentle- had bun sent out, had not been carried into effect. from Holland, and other countries In the neighbourhood men who had supported the motto was this, that by shut. Sir J. GRAHAM had felt some hesitation as towboat" (Hear, hue) They might depend upon it that evasion tiog out the Reduce of Rosie wo could so coerce, so AS/a• he ought to break silents or not, because he was consoimo would follow enactment, and as fast as t'iey stopped this midste, and so impoverish the Emperor of Rosati, that we he had sinned last session by saying too much as to their thing in one place, it would rise up iu another. (Hoar, could compel him to make peace on any terms we might die- intentions of blockading ; and bad been ecosowbat indite bear.) They had had some imperfince in this moor, tato, that we might adi another to the four poicts—indeed, crest, from an anxious desire to give information to the though not exactly with regard to certificates of that we might make him swallow as many points as we mercantile community in answering from time to time rather origin. Is the ISM war they did not resort to cortifireatas of pleased. (Laughttr.) WI at was, after all, the whole starching questions. He bad now boot addressed in terms otitis, but licenses were granted to favoured traders. Now hs amount of is exports of Rom to this country ? Seven he supposed not intended to be discourteous but somewhat meld ask whether it might not well have been expected millions, as appeared by the blue book presented to Os harsh ; the hon. mumbler for Plymouth charged him with that lissom thus granted would be es free from objection, bone • few days ago. But that rtes millions was not all inconcity and incompetency. es the rpm' of fraud, as sartilicwes of origin from con- profit, and all the profit that wu gained did not belong to Mr. COLLIER disclaimed any omit intention. Mb 1 1 MN% than, was the result of experience with re- the Emperor of Russia, but to his subjects. Say that the Sir 3 . GRAHAM would be sorry to incur the displeasure owl Miasma ? His boa. friend the member for Bedpan profit was 10 per cent., which would yield 760,0001., of ths house by his conduct in an °Medal capacity, In a mid Nemo would be but few frauds, because the persons or give another 6 par cent., and let the profit he question when such great interests won lowan& The engaged la who trade were so respectable. What was the taken as 950,0001. The whole amount which we *holed pat hon. gentleman only did him justice in supposing that wins 4099 with regard to licenses in 1812 ? Ths abuts of lionises upon the Russians would be a tax of 950,0001_..- sad It he stated, on the part of the government , it was lotondod • lad to repeated debates in both houses of paella. was sold that being deprived of this amount the Russians blockade should be instituted in the Black Sot, that orders mint, and to the strongest and most indignant dentiosiatiow would tarn round upon the Emperor and compel him to to the effect had been sent out. His right bon. trieod the The subject was brought btfUrs the House of Lords by Lord submit to terms of puss. He (Mr. Ricardo) maintained President of the Board of Trade kid in his admirable Lowdown', and before the Home of Commons by .Mr. that it was contsraptibl• on the pastel the house to entertain speech—(hear, hear)—reminded the how that in this Brougham, and it was stated that licenses had ineressod to such arguments. What must the Emperor of Russia think maritime war they bad • 'maritime ally ; it was • frightful extant, and a system of fraud, immorality and of such an argument, when by a site& stroke of his pen he therefore impoisiblo to adopt any musters for • perjury porvadod the whole country. In the words of and kept oat six millions a year of corn, and showed no fear of blockada in the Baltic, Black, or White Seas, except OM Stowell, "the whole eommarcie of the country was • system his people turning round ? This was a bugbear the English fell discussion with the goverment of French, and consort of elesslatioa and dissimulation." If such was the effect of people had conjured up for themselves. Hs oonhutd that with them. Orders to institute a blockade of the Btack Su Ifissslis gesmeed by the Petty Conseil, what was likely to In when he first heard thus statements he thought it vary were sent out in the month of May, after coosultation with the east of certificates a - in grant d by ormode ? possible that the Emperor of Russia might think that we the government of Francs. The orders expressed to the IMire kW.) His hos Ira friend said that were not disposed vigorously to canyon the war, that ws English and French admirals that a blockade should be in- Maim ime the deatelme of sound political wets depending upon these measures, and not upon those stituted, but the mode in which the order was to be sartiod zzi, Mt wale ousspara doctrines, necessarily , which hs (Mr. Ricardo) hoped to on very soon carried out was left to their discretion. The boom would tommt lad is the g ra d poem TM » of war. T same out. 01 toils he telt united, that if this comity her that the order was directed to authorities these thou *kg wee said is the ekes of the late war. Bet safely returned back to its Orders in Council of 1808 sand miles distant; after imeiving the orders they semi tbiktest of a eeeseition was tide—Did it lead to a tree eon- aad 1807, to those melsomloal doctriass which doted the mods is which they should he executed, and UM nitwits or to • rls emu ? If drakes were true, they wan won held then, to thaw fismil measures which were consultation, the French and English admirals cunt to • bowed in noses and mikes, a adhere a thew What enacted then, tho country would return at the same time to conclusion, as to the mode which would be most effectual. might they enema le M the Whet peeked GUM the sake the same poverty, to the same pauperism, to the same min- It was one in conformity with the laws of nation*, and net of the Buipsinsc if Reeds, or upon weasel power, by fortune, to the same inability to mast the exigencies of the inconsistent with cosmos mos ; it was to blockade that their Wootton of • course which they saw was calculated to war, to the oasis difficulties in raining Use soPPlim noses- Black Sea at its entrance is the Hospborse. They prepared injure this country far more *overtly than it was calew *try for our subsistence which then had to be oontendid a sole*, declaring that from • tinso to be fixed lased to injure Russia ? (Hear, Itur.) Did the house with, and which be hoped no, country would sever have by them a blockade of the Black Sea would be think that that would produce • iscouraging effect on the to stopple with again. (Loud theirs.) instituted In the Bosphorus, and that all polio' mind of the Emperor of Russia, or that it would incresso Lord DUNCAN thought the how bad some reason to of neutrals would be stopped at the outrun into the his disposition to mks peace ? To him (Mr. Cardwell) it complain of the notice which appeared on the paper, and Black Sta. The notice was ocusaminalmil to the Fronk appeared that it must monsarily lead tithe opposite result. wbieh might have been reasonably supposed to lead to a and English arabamadno at Comilmodospis ; they enter- It was said that Prussia was encouraged in her asutrality different sort of debate than that to which the house had tabling doubts as to tbs legality of era • erase, met it by the benefit which she derived from oho malt trade. been called upon to listen. The term of the metros wen home to their respective rorimuments 1 NON mosultation Did they think she would be less iocined to neutrality if "to call the attention of the house to the state of our with the highest authorities it was to been a sh* bad besides the advantage of a manufacturing &al*? trade with Russia, and to move for • return of the valid notice, to which last a~eteesli bill While this (Hoar) What, too, did they think would be the effect pro- Russian exports from Archasgol to this country during notice was Wing so transmitted, SO eesidsed, ao rejected, dosed on our own population it home ?H• know UN Gill- the present year ." Now the port of Archangel was aloud nearly throe mouths went lest. At ohoeexpi ation of that taints *odd& working mon of this country wart props:MO with ice, and would not be opts with the middle of June. time the groat inovemeat fr om Vera* to the Crimea was sake any sacrifice which might be requisite fort eh vigorous Mr. COLLIER said hit, motion was intended to gofer to undertake* by the esahhied anal Mess of Franco and prosecution of the war ; but he thougnt they would require lad year. England, conveying ea immoral army ; in that, the largest to be satisfied that everything wu reasonably and thought- Lord DUNCAN would not trespass long upon the time 'nod operatics tsar murated, the whole naval forts fully dose, and when they read that the member for Ply. of the hoes . alter the able speeches whirls had b un of Franc* rad England es those sate was for some math h ad talked of their losing only one sovereign while made by the President of the Board of Trade, and the tan. engaged. Alter ths kullament of Sebastopol it um the Emperor of Russia lot two sovereigns, they would, hon. member for Stoke-upon-Trent, but as he bad bun t,hou.ghtl__lmsommk___,.. by seal tho wad onalmilltail_ ammodall he believed, require to hays that proved to them. (Haar, personsily alluded to by on• of the hon. members who had LaLemar i.....ht amm am Imo 510•01 •0001 m so le breithin bur.) The us had been maintained most remark - brought forwatd this motion, ho thought be was bound to 4 aat tbum to tbs smash et Oallobsr. t was meet ably, unsidering that they had been subjected to the trial offer one or two words of uiplamatiou. He bed joined a my tia - tWo - blockade ebould liss tightwad by 911101119 of the ot was. It was astonishing to think that the year 1863 deputation that had waited spot the Earl of Clarandos • rabbis& fleets, but, for renew MOM he was sow the Melia been beyond all precedent and comparison the row weeks ago, and he, perhaps, might be onablid to ea- haw wet" not Prue him to allat•-000r hour)—it was greatest year ever known in the British expert tads, it lighten the home stetson. or two points. Thu host. member Bet fammiravenit nt to wmpley the mesh ke this purpose. 1864, with the three evils of • European war, a for Bridport had cast some unworthy taunts upon tk• mill. Ho bad thus explained hilly to the bora 0119 dranntstances crisis la America, and a crisis in Australia, the falling owners who wanengaged in the manufacture of linen. He under which tho blockade se israded by the lagfieh and off was so mall, Esping oely, he thought, about 2 per cent. ; (ths nob& lord) would not follow the example of his boo. French governments had set ram unioll Into abet till • and that the trade of 1854 was far above that of all preced- friemd,:for he should be torry_ . to castcessurso upon any lugs late period. At the present atommtios had no doubt a if. facto blockade did exist at Odom and every port in the lag years. except 1853. (Hear, hear.) But the war bad bodies of his onntryma. Thus could be no doubt that had its effect. They saw now what he hoped would prove both the members for Plymouth and Bridpeßridportwere signs Black Sea with the exception of the mouth of the Danube. It was considered most isafortaat, in • military point of only a temporary check in trade ; and they bad in ths suspicion : but ho would ask the house to consider the ton manufaaturiog districts signs of the pressure which had duct of them capitalists whoa they represented. From Vi.W , that while the Russians held the Principe been produced. Did they think that in famishing the ways the declaration of war in March sothing was heard w i t h titles all contraband of war should be Intercepted in and means for the vigorous prosecution of the war it would be regard to the proposed blockade. Everything went on its • from Odessa to the Salim mouth, any satisfaction to them to find that they had dried up some smoothly until • larger amount of flax than is any formes whic h occupied by the Rumbas. It was a question fruitful sources of revenue without indicting any correspond-- year was brought into this country. When that amount of whether a blockade sheik be instituted sr not, because, in` injury on the Emperor of Russia ? (Hear.) Did they Ng was brought in sirloin gentlemen were seized with • as be explained on a fawn occasion, the Emden batteries think that if they approached the state of affair* which sudden fit of activity, and !mad out that the blockade had commanding the river am the loft h a" for forty aihia existed in this country is 1812. when then was such die- sot been properly *Moms& Boon afterwards deputations from its mouths gave Ulna fall command of the rivers as tress in the manufacturing districts, and when the price of of capitalists, not of millowmars, wen hoard of, which do the deep water was ea that side, whether than was a blockade or not. A Nadia& was thought necessary la a provisions was so high, that would b• an advantage as re- petauons waited epos the &H of Clarendon and impressed military point of view, bat eireamatenees had since girded the prosecution of the war ? (Hoar, be ) It upon him the wormity of mioraiog the blockade. He appeared to him • most remarkable circumstance (the noble lord) having beard of thou deputations, aceom- altered. A blockade was nut hecessery for military per that at the end of the fist twelve months of pained a dtratatioa of saillowoon to Lord Clarendon, and ho poses. There was • stasisat fees off Odessa and off the war, tiny should have been able to inflict so was bowed to state in:that house that the noble earl told the Salina mouth to OWNS all steetrabsed of war, and the blockade of the Salim was thessibrei raised ;but he was serious a pressure as he had already shown they bad dose them that whatever might be his personal or private feelings on the trade of the Emperor of Russia, with the prospect of —however anxious he might be to maintain the trade of convinced that at that miasma every other Russian port is inflicting a severer pressure in future years, and that they this countn—he thought st right to my that in the patios t h e Black Sea was hwektulad ' With respect in the While should have sustained so smell a proportion of injury be occupied he should feel it incumbent upon hist to take Sea, the cones adopted rammemary for French and liar thermal's. (Hear, bear.) He humbly submitted to the every mew in his power to vs., to harass, and to annoy pith interests. The coins of teak was that large advisees louse that this justified the government in ths course the rut unsay against whom we were engaged. (Cheers.) were made every pear by File* and English merchant. they had pursued of adopting that mode of nprosoos,whish Considering the diSeulties with which all our operations for Russian produce to be eh from the White km. was calculated to inflict the maximum of injury on tbs had bun accompanied, he (Lord Duncan) thought that the In the usual amuse 11 "" whwille° had Win made in au enemy and the minimum of injury on themselvee, and of cenduct of the &obis tail did the greatest possible credit to autumn of the year before late, cad If the French and is nfralaing from worth g to that mode of repression which her Majesty's administration. ( Cheers, ) He could not for lisp government. had deMedeed to institute • would SAM a alight and temporary injury ea the essay and an instant forget that, during what bad been called the blockade from Os first merwat of the we, the Ansel • peat and permanent end increasing injury as themselves. party shuffles of which they had lately hoards much, and English merchants would ben leat tboir anew. ael (Chew.) He bad not referred to the spumes which his there was the greatest unanimity on on. point—namely, the Ramillies kept thew ' eali till i sdhse le° whi°ll 11.71 ii. bus. Mired the member for Stoke-upon Trent (Mr. J. L. that, whatever changes might take place, the Earl of Cla- made. The common interest, and the digitate* of antra Riesedo) had vastly presented to the members of that Tendon was not to be removed from the position he so woo sense were consulted by not instituting the Mira& Wilk ram; he had dealt, as it became him to do, with Unman thlly occupied as the &enter, of State for Foreign product was secured. As to the Bass, it was meapretemliel aerate in the past year, and with the results which that Lifters. (Loud cheers.) He (LeadDancan) would Wilds a blockade had not been established. As MIN . 10m.th tin mums of events had produced. He thought ha had shown bon. friends who had spoken in favour of this motion French and English governments wort dotormiang to Osti. thst the vigorous prosecution of the war had bean the desire that he bad more confidence in the noble earl's judg- tuts • strict blockade of oho White 3.4 i the Mann aka gentomestaed that if they had refrained from adopt- meat than in theirs, for ths noble lord had carried toe the navigatioa opined, that In the Bala ragd be kith* moseares which his hon. friend the member for Ply- country triumphantly through the war as far as his renewed, and he was convinced that at Nat menemat Math aid his boa. friend the member for Bridport had foreign policy was concerned. (Lord Dunces penciled then was not • single open port in the Black Bea. (Hear.) irgit misbecame 'My believed that those measures would to road extract from letters he had received funs Rossio, Mr. DUNCAN bore testimony to the accuracy of the rious,not to tile great Emperor against whom they wen stating that prices wore 30 per cont. higher than duriag the tight hon. baronet's statement es to the circessastimme of easteadine, but to the manufacturing population of Ilse- peace, which must inevitably produce great distress, and the blockade of the White Sea. Ho had waited at Ma es land, to the agriculture of Ireland, to the revenue of th that if the protest stand still should matinee iamb rant one of a deputation, to ask that they might be allowed to State, and, speaking geaerally, to the domestic prosperity trade would be completely ruined.) Now, Mills the Jim remove the littiduec against which they had made wdelsw " of the kingdom. (Chain.) aim people won in that sotto of distress, let the home for The right hon. baronet waded to this roiliest ;he pro mised to let thins remove their goods, but would not sagas Kr. J. 1.. RICARDO said he should have bean very will • moment turn their attention to the people of Fray, suited to let the speech of the right hon. gentleman who which hs represented, and which was largely eraged be "Y find tine heft " wit " the Wachs " would net had jut est kw be taken as an anger to the remarks in the linen trod*. Whetbar they looked thus, to to the instituted. Since that period not oats of his as rage hag boss made by the leaned wake it, Plymouth West Riding of Yorkshire, or to the northern pens skims had carried on any trade with Russia. . sod the hes member for Bridport, as the geraples he had of Ireland, they would fi nd that the state of tan people Mr COLLIER, in reply, explaked that any expression laid dew aiming la the safe with those which he would be benefited by keeping doers the prises of fins to he awl used with "Yawl to the Much " . wal wet intended (Mr. Rianie) had publicly siluserad; bet those wartime the lowest possible amount. How could the tub of Ramie to apply to the administfatiew of the Admiralty by air 3. ee two polka is the Me egossiaas while Mid hems delivered be stepped I Were we to deelen war with Pinsk ? Heald Graham, but he had alluded to the 'sandlot of ewe of those ups. Obi& the Paideet of the Eased of Task had not we pram{ Hraien rakes rake thrash Perak ? entru s te d with theadministrationadministrationcc it Balakiays. With to toads& It. wWe Mew the ham, member for Britt- Even if thsy raid, ;beg would god t h.. gamma y rim b ioe teed to his complaint on the subject of the blothede in the lack S ea, he should leave it to the =env to decide how port weld 'SANS* to him any motives of self-interest In would coma tato this country anagh some otherchannel, 13 With regard to the tbs sown which he had rase ; said the position of the if it was waked. Was the Mee gravely to deliberate I " 4had h i . e .",.._ tatiefeetott "'wen d ' Baltic he had urged that either there boa. and learned gutless who bed made this ao- whether Rama out off the num* of Ira stoma ? No bl oc kad e " "L' should be a good blockade or some, and he ties was quits seillieleett to that he, tee, doubt Mks werratinuid, other rases might be found Md asserted that the blockade had been seriously had no self-kunst is that ay fur • Minima from wham seppEes of raw produce might be lewd equal -.:A..a B. ~i.h.A to all .w..d.. in a serious blockade width had been beard Ihnigket the mislay. a the apples shah we received from Eras, bat Ist the a— '''''' ''— ---- --- -------- — ----- mistake which had bean made by oho right hon. gentleman Ths hon. sad Maned nitrates said that Praia was ins- house eraider what evils woad be Saluted upea fringing her mattality in allowise Realm prams to pass the districts he had named by l b. mime w hi c h (Mr. Cardwell). The right hoe. gentleman had in his &raw . througb that esuatry ; but that was an &aura el very bad been segginted by the o f this no mesh take oho rotunts of the Board of Trade of imports little prettied limo, for Eriglamd would buy that radios ties. what On distress they s w: P r ill have to contend from Rtlaalc_inthth;: coun try actin g the last peer i het the were now curled by means of land whether it sera theough Pr ra or by any ether lams, against if the reer material wen suddenly cut off. There '"` was, "'' Impo r ts carriage, by which goods wore &Mined longer in Mout ; and and whether ible eemetry wee at war with Eras et het. was draw eragh in those districts already. He (the That bad alarms bees fle am Decrees wen unable to noble lord) had tbat day received letters stating that tae the question was not what quantity of goods was imported, sameleg Prohibit grata Rem ithe this mussy I. the we it had nand greatly from the war, but that they were st•• bat what quantity was ordered and on its way. When, Punt TM right his. gralINEOl bed prated out very willing to endare any menet*/ ; that they were therefore, the ri g ht h°ll ' ‘f"'" 1 """ "jetted to thetet"ce , thew fate to show a diminution of ia want. as the imports last year, clearly that a groat Wary wan ka ra t set by the deepen talking to take their full share of the of the French, belay mestetves se wain ram MU way. shan of the pains and penalties, hat wen not with's. be adopted ;• fallacious teat of the mint of the He (Mr. Runrdo) . tea wish to eater at way Maga lino that the government by any hasty or inj step s h o w; trade, as the returns of ths next two months would show. this object, for Ms*mime were well Mira, nod he aggravate thou. dimities. m e m ) o w ge. pert of hi e He (Mr. Collier) bad before him a paper .Igned by ell the principal merchants of St. Petersburg, which stated the would only notice a Ow of the obouvations that constituents, b• publicly thanked this gio lilendollit for what bad. fallea from the honoursWo member for Held. they had already done in regard**, oneduet of the war, quantity o f tallo w Mat from Rulais last year . The result port. Of all the variety of sr/noses he lied heard— but at the use time be most swam • hem that by no such ' wsthat .. in the ear i 1864 then had been exported 82,667 of all the coallicting reasons whin' bon bun urged in sup- count as that suggested would tiny indict upon his con- .„ cask ', ,„„ w h il e il i INS then wort 102,000 casks, and in 1862 pert of on simple propoition—the most remarkable wort shotgun, and others in • Smiler pesition. heavier distress' a.;'uu ca'''' ; so ... that thequisalim, of tallow sect these which had been advareepd is those two spossibos. TM than they wore at present called upon to snouts. (Cheers.) from Ramis la lasra was about the sum* as was sa ke. mean, for Bridport began by &tondos tho right boa . WATSON wished to say a few words, because his ported in 1862, and only a thud less than the Went at the head of the Ad iiralty for not • eleastilleamei wine deeply interested in the question ; but he expo rts of 1853. He was jastilled, therefore, in his quantity had been seat out Miami blockade, showing that AM only part In ill atekrad to follow the President of the Board of Trade position that almost the mom .. from and ordered in Russia by British capitalists in the there was a stringent blockade waist ths Danubte e _Mi keg IA SW dieramiss of the general question whether it win as although it was detained longer on Its way by we kid se corn in coniequenco. (Hear, hoar.) w s SIIIII Marais to persevere in the system of blockade. If tb• y ear ever, and carriage. The ,ncg Of het right MO, ;collet:a m u argweet worthy of that bout ? ('. Hem, burl end organist of the right hon. gentleman was good for any ha_Vil He that we ought cost to let the thing , it was good for this—that blockades ought to be Plant not only to tallow bat to bump and Ng. He (Mr. Collier) therefo re was not removed friZtt this position Im had n mew We this country. The Harem Rods deme away with altogether, and a system of free trade in taken when he asserted that the blockade k the Bails had "won Weak ouraly the sumo, wed Wildli s Siks lime of war established . In his opinion, the proper policy Fist Lied oldie the aeiwally el eel of this Demon was, by a etrilit blockade, to destroy tb. been evaded. He had suggested what be th.'ught the most 'Sahara 40 prevent the of • Pepulatioa he peeperty of Raids, of the nobles of Ramie, lad thus cr i pp l e effective way of magpies the trade , essoly, by "WOW le lied hem the sewspapers was k ewe the resources of the Emperor; is fact, towage war against remonstrating_, with BMW% sod, If she Robed the . a.qies, _tuna W the away up in arms ie emesgeemee the countinghouse of Russia. What he complained ot was, It „maid on nu really &EMI Mt fralla le the prods,: 'Kt WO Plias which prevalled. zum i a teet, hear .) Thera. that while they professed the system, ;and proclaimed a of nu"' inn x, that Um tiliht hi sesta he a gia t 'y,4 Utast leallira whiled to strike Me hould be norced • an prate ehtgahsr, bleekede, they did not carry it out, MO oratituents were c, , d, Sa t egg prebibid.../ d ee i cirr c f Basra red i Amain. tIttliDAL.-1 / 1 the H°9l. 4 grl"".. led MOW swiftest's of eat, a stablest upom width mere deeply interested than ths inhabitants of any other I L - -l a. - nt° thiamin/WS, ifibli Kfffillterafind. I = said b. died to lucid and conyinsiai tow. in the htegtiew, ai .._,..... a lo g e teed' ~, unseic i I jf ell those failed, be would meat that It Willi lle better to nett :upend ' . ...millOall, W the President of the Board of Trade. BM. Willi "- w---, _ to Is z r aiti . " e al Black ' give lip the blockade altogethie.asd la that *ass he W-Imorr", Mr. - es to ask the First Lord of the • • us. Waramlol WS/ AA.,:... 1 ,. , ~,.. the boa, ...A1..... - -----•-•• had got Mkt iralikable UM of [leas. Whoa the Ed Lord of the Admiralty supported bY the member Ng Stoke . The stoniest..? "" — "'" 3 w " . `"" " - the t madras* ant blame 110119701000 to Admiral papa • Al for not attachlog Odessa &woad lira'. representatives is the f his death either in action or adder other circumstances; whether the whole of the money paid by an officer for his commissions is seers aced by him when he attaias the rank of major g 1; of the annual pay of a major-general, and of other officers of higher grade ; and of the number of commissions given away Mace the Ist day cf 'toasty, 1863, and the roles and practices in force concerning the gift of commissions, anti whether an officer to whom a commission is given is, by the rules of the service, entitled to sell his commission for the regulation pries. SUPPLY. Mr. WILSON brostgbi;; the of the committee of supply. NEWSPAPER. &c., POSTAGE AND STAMP DUTIES. Mr. WILSON broughT;;ll7;re port on the resolution.. The bill was afterwards read a first time, and ordered for a second reading oa Friday. MARIN* MUTINY AND MUTINY BILLS. OA iii•ntOtionT.ll47l.ONAmTes,a..7..iiu.,;;;Tead • first time. The house adjourned at 20 minutes to 1, till 2 o'clock 1 this day. Int Court. WOUNDED GUARDS AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE. By command of the Queen thirty-two of the Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, wounded at Alma, lokermann, and in the trenches before Sebas topol, assembled at Buckingham Palace, within the Grand Hall, at half-put two o'clock yesterday after noon, and were inspected by her Majesty, who was accompanied by Prince Albert, the colonel of the regiment. Her Majesty, attended by Colonel Thomas Wood, lient.-colonel of the regiment, questioned every soldier about his wounds, and afterwards received from Mr. Brown, surgeon-major of the regiment, a report of the state of the invalids. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and Prince Arthur, followed the Queen and the Prince during the examination of the wounded men. The Royal Princesses and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting were also present in the Grand HaIL Prince Albert presided ynterday morniag at a meeting of the Courted for the Management of the Duchy of Corn wall, held at the office in St. James's-square. His Royal Highest* was attended by Colon' the Hon. C. H. Phipps. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prins, of Wales and the Princess Royal. honoured the Olympia Theatre with their presence in the evening. The royal suite onslated of the Countess of Desert, Lord de Tabl eyßoe., Lord Alfred Paget, mid Captain the Hon. Dudley de A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign office. Downing-strest, yesterday afternoon. The ministers present wereViesount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Pawnor., the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, Sir William Moisswoeth, Viscount Canning, and the Earl of Carlisle. The Council sat two hours. Despatches frees the Commander of the Forms in the Crimes were received yesterday at the one. of the Depart. meat for Was. THE EXPECTED IMPERIAL VISIT TO THE CRIMEA. The Paris corresponden t of the Inddpendane. Beige, writing on Monday, says, " I am able to add some new details to that which has been already said respecting the departure of their Imperial Majesties for the Crimea; the date flied foe the departure of the sovereign and a part of his guard commanded by General Regnauld de Saint Jean d'Angely, is the 26th. The Empress has named two of her ladies of honour to accompany her, viz., the Countess de Mon tebello and the Baroness de Pierre.. Two ships, which will then have returned from the East, are reserved for the passage, viz., the Imperial yacht La Reins Hortense and the Phlegetoo. ,DEPARTURE OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL FOR VIENNA. Yesterday morning, shortly after seven o'clock, Lord J. Russell left his resides°, in Chestiest-place, for the pupae of proceeding on his diplomatic mission to Vienna. His lordship was accompanied by Lady Jobs Hassell and his two daughters. At eight o'clock his lordship arrived at the South Resters Railway station,twhme be was received by Mr. Wethered, the station.master, and conducted to the express train, in which, seemapasied by one of his daugh ters, he proosetted, at ten minutes pest eight, direct to Folkestase. Lady John Russell, sad his lordship's other demister, returned immediately afterward, to Chubs's. place. His lordship intended to proceed directly to Paris, where he will have an interview with the Emperor of the Preach, after which it is understood that ha will go to Berlin, so that his arrival at Vienna mast necessarily be delayed for a few days. ,MEETING OF CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS OF, Avery amorous meeting, comprising a large el Peers, sad newly 200 members of the Horse of Com ises, was held at Lord Eglintoa's house, in St. James's.. l egume, yesterday. Lord Derby wildirawed the meeting at length. He alluded W the line of essieet pursued by him during the late poll. Ikea Odds, midi deed lit views and opinions generally upon die peas ttitl peempeets of the Conservative party. IeeIAWN speech was received most enthusiastically awl a lOW the entire end eeatintted eoufidenee el the Osseureative party in their leader, was moved by We !Bari d fllndbroke, seconded by U. Palmer, S.P. ler Berkshire, sad serried wahassaly.—Herald. FUTURE OPERATIONS IN TEE BALTIC. Galignani hos the followiog :—" The operations in the Baltic neat 'pries will, it is stated, bo conducted on a male of sztrsordinary nisgnitude. In addition to the naval forces of England, which are to consist of 150 steamers, Pianos will send 60 stem-vessels sad a powerful land artameest, wldeb is now stationed at various points along the gout from c a lm s Mcgi!boutg. Fur the conveysom t aw troops and all the war usaiirial, the Frei& government have entered into a east/set with an English company, the ropre sentative of which is at present in Pert—an arrangement which will have the advantage of leaving the vowels of war free to operate with all their power &Oast the great ilosalan strovmholds in the Golf of Finland." Utte enprefss. TO CORRESPONDENTS. dvartisomesta b;edtledior 7: ll;F:rpresa,"LcWiton Evening paper, most be at the Moe, 10, Boarstio-street. by Two ealock os the day of pablation. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Two MT—Montag, W. Attention, M. Wee. Towcaagor—Yoroisi, Ma. $l Afterglow. eh. I.e. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD rIANIFESTO OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. We have received the Journal de St. Petersbourg, of the 13th, which contains the following " MANIFESTO OF H.M. THE EMPEROR: " We, by the Grace of God, Nicholas 1., Emperor land Autocrat of All the Amiss, &c., make known— " Our faithful and well-beloved subjects know how we desire to arrive, without the employment of the bras of arms—without further effuaion of blood,—at the end which we have constantly proposed— that of defending the rights of our co-religionists, and of Christians in general in the East. This wish is equally known to all those who have watched with attention and impartiality the march of events, as well as the invari►ble tendency of our acts. We have been, and still remain, strangers to every other motive—to any other view—in point of faith and conscience. To-day, again, faith ful to these principles, we have announced our anent to the opening of negotiations with the Western Powers, who have formed with the Ottoman Porte a hostile alliance against us. We be lieve it is owing to ourselves to expect on their part the same sincerity, the same disinterestedness of intentions, and we do not lose the hope of arriving at the re-establishment of a peace so desired, so pre cious to all Christendom. Nevertheless, in presence of the forces which they have gathered together, and of the other preparations which they are making to struggle against us—preparations which, In spite of the pending negotiations, are not discontinued, but even acquire every day, without ceasing, yet vaster developments—we are constrained on our side to consider immediately the augmentation of the means which God has given us to defend our country, to oppose a firm and powerful barrier to all the hostile attempts against Russia—to all the projects which menace its security and its greatness. This, first of our ditties, we fulfil, and, in voking the assistance of the Most High with an implicit faith in His grace, and with full confidence in the love of our subjects, animated with the same sentiments as ourselves, of devotion to our faith, to the Orthodox Church, and to our dear country—we address this new appeal to all classes of our subjects, commanding "That the formation of a general militia of the Empire (dune milker 'minds de 'Ervin') be pro ceeded with. "The arrangements relative to the formation and to the organisation of this militia have been exa mined and confirmed by us, and will be found expounded in detail in a special regulation. They will everywhere be put into execution with punctu ality and zeal. " More than once already, painful and even cruel trials have menaced and injured Russia ; but she has always found her safety in her humble faith in Pro vidence, in the close and indissoluble tie which unites the Monarch to his subjects, his devoted children. Let it prove the same to-day I May God, who reads hearts—who blesses pure in tentions—grant us his assistance ! " Given at St. Petersburg, the 29th day of the month of January, in the Year of Grace 1855, and the Thirtieth Year of our Reign. —Daily News. (Signed) "NICHOLAS." The Manilour of yesterday contains a report to the Emperor by M. Magus, the new minister of finance. It announces the re-imposition of the duties on commercial receipts and obligations as they ex isted before the law of the 7th August, 1860, and states that with this aid there will be a surplus of 4,000,000 francs. The advance of 30,000,000 francs made by the Bank having been reimbursed from the proceeds of the recent loan, the floating debt is at this moment nearly the ears* as last yeor, viz., 697,339,400 francs. The bass du treaor do not ex ceed 218,000,000 francs, nor the fonds des cuirass d'epargne 180,000,000 franca—Daily Naos. We learn by telegraph from Vienna that Baron Prokeech Osten, formerly Austrian internuncio at the Sublime Porte, will be the Austrian special oommis dense at the approaching diplomatic conferences.— bod es* News. DESPATCH FROM LORD RAGLAN. -..- (PAM LAST 111011 T'S GLUM.) War Department Feb. 20, 186 E. Lord Panmure has thii day: received • despatch and its enclosure', of which the:following are copies, addressed to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, by Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.8.: Before Sebastopol, Feb. 6, 1866. My Lord Duke,—l mentioned to your Grace on Saturday that the weather had broken. The frost was very severe on that night, and the thermometer down at 13, and the wind was very high and piercingly cold. Sunday was rather milder, and yesterday was Ape, Today the glass has fallen, and there is every I appearing of rain. I am happy to state that the medical officers eon. eider that the general conditi.7.l of the men has im proved, although apixtently there is nu diminution in the number of the sick. T he enemy ys of waggo n secomynyhoumadeno han movementeofn observedimotan oe t: bat , go into Sebastopol laden either with ammunition or provisions. 1 enclose the casualties to the 4th inst. LieuteColonel Collingwood Dithon, of the Royal Artillery, an excellent officer, whom I have before had occasion to bring to your notice, was slightly wounded on the 4th instant, when making a recon naissance in company with some French officers. I have, &c., RAGLAN. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c. &c. RETURN OF CASUALTIES FROM lAN. 16 TO FEB. 4. M. INCLUSIVE. - • • Royal Artillery-1 °Seer, wounded. Reildatent of Foot-9 rank and fle. wounded. 7th Regiment-1 rank and film wounded. 30th Foot-1 rank and ale, killed. 41th Regiment 1 rank and alts, 49th negiment-1 rank and film, wounded. 67th Regiment-1 rank and Ala, wounded. 2nd battalion Rids Brigade -1 ee went, wounded. Total-1 rank and RN silted; 1 officer, 1 sergeant, 3 rank and ayk wounded. RETURN OP OFFICELS WOUNDED FROM THE gas TO Om FEBRUARY, 1653. toned C. Dickson, Royal Artillery, eligttly. NOMINAL RETURN OF NON.COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVAIEd KILLED. FROM 2inr JANUARY 10 4rn FRB. }WARY, 1663; INCLUSIVE, Private Thomism Greenfield, 1479, 44th Regiment of Foot. LANs-Corporal Charles Douglas, 3 Ala, :oth Regiment of Foot. Captain and NOMINAL RETURN OP NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES WOUNDED FRO cl THE fern JANUARY TO 412 FEBRUARY, 1333, INCLUS.VL Pri.ate Thomas Kelly, Ink 7th It, giment of Foot, severely. recreant George Woke, 125 J, 2nd Battalion Me Brigade, effetely. Private Owen Morris" 3197, On h Regiment of Foot, slightly. Private John !clonally. 1.883, 97th Regiment of Foot, slightly. Private Bryan ilk, 3170, Ist Royal Regiment, severely. Private Petor Ye °weeny, Mt, Ist Royal liegintent, severely. A LOAN FOR THE WAR EXPENDITURE. IT has been plain sailing, in the House of Commons, with the Army and Navy Estimate, Some discusaions have been raised in committee, but rather with a view to ventilate principles than to object to specific items. The tone of the House has been, " Tell us what the vigorous prosecution of the 1 war is likely to cost, and you shall have the money; only go to work with a will" There will be no quarrel between the House of Commons and the Government about the amount of money to be raised for the war expenditure of the year. But it will be different when the question as to the means of raising it comes on. At least it will be so. if Mr: GLADSTONE adheres to his purpose of raising the whole of the money required for the year's expenditure within the year by additions to the taxes. In approaching this knotty question, let us enter a protest against attempts to bias the public mind by ir relevant considerations. It may be true that there was much jobbery anddishonesty atwork in the contracting of many of the loans by which the national debt has been swelled to its actual amount. That is an argu ment, not against loans honestly and prudently con tracted, but against spendthrift and fraudulent borrowing. Again, we are warned not to proceed rashly in a course of borrowing, because the debt may be increased beyond what the resources of the nation can bear. This argument, like the former, tells not against the use, but the abuse of the loan system. The practical question really at issue may be pat as follows :—The war in which we are engaged renders an extra expenditure necessary. How can the means of defraying this temporary increased outlay be procured, regard being had to the prin ciples of justice in the first place, and to the recom mendations of prudence in the aeoond ? It is alleged that the existing generation has no right to tax future generations. But it is not so easy to say when a generation begins and ends- The more practical way of considering the ques tion is to view the nation as a great corporation managing an estate for its own advantage. Tho individuals who compose the corporation are continn. ally changing; after the lapse of a number of years they will be entirely changed ; bat there is no sudden or definable transition, and the corporation remains the same. The question, therefore, is not whether one body of men may impose burdens on another ; but whether &corporation managing its own estate is justified in contracting, occasionally, terminable debts with a view to ensure a permanent advantage ? The nation—the existing corporation—is of opinion that a tangible and lasting benefit is to be obtained by the vigorous and successful prosecution of the present war. Its right, therefore, to incur a debt which may be gradually extinguished, In order to attain this lasting benefit, is indisputable. The only question that remains is, whether it will be more prudent to clear off the icon year by year, as we go, or to spread the payment of the war expenditure over a tract of future years The main consideration for our guidance in easing this pro b lem is—what effect will the mode adopted, . . . of raising the increued revenue, have upon the indus trial operations of the country. It is to be desired that the increased sum extracted from the pockets of the people should derange trade—should hamper the pro ductive industry of the people—u little as possible. Some disturbance there necessarily must be, but let es try to reduce it to a minimum. At this point, the opponents of the loan system strike in with representations of the deleterious effect that will be produced on our manufacturing industry if Government comes into the market as a borrower. The rate of interest, they say, will be raised; the manufacturer will be obliged to restrict his opera tions; less will be produced, and employment will be withdrawn from the working dames. To us the fear implied in this assumption, of a sudden and mis chievous withdrawal of capital from manufacturers in consequence of a Government loan, appears to be exaggerated. Though the whole sum required by Government will be raised at once, it will not be expended at once. It will be deposited with the Bank, and will be taken into account by the Directors in fixing their rates of accommodation. When expended, great part of it will flow into the pockets of English manufacturers, will be deposited with the banks, and will thus be restored to the available floating capital of the country. Bat there is another and more important consideration to be kept in view. The manufactures carried on by the employment of large capitals, important though they be, do not constitute the whole productive industry of the country, nor eve. the greater part of it. They do not give employment to nearly one-half of oar labouring population. They are not to be kept exclusively in view, if we would ascertain the safest mode of raising the extra revenue required. By far the greater part of the population which subsists upon wages is employed by small capitalist., or by these who hover between the capitalist and the labourer. Now, though a Government loan, by limiting to some extent the operations of our great factory' owners, might inconvenience their workmen, a sud den increase of taxes—whether direct, like the Income Tax, or indirect, like Customs or Excise duties—would affect prejudicially a far greater num ber of our labourers, and cramp productive industry far more extensively. The greater part of our taxa tion is paid by parties in the receipt of incomes from 6001. a year downwards. Any increase in the In come Tax, or in the duties on the necessaries of life, would compel them to economise, by discharging a part or the whole of the labourers they now employ. The fears entertained of the effect of a government leen on manufactures are exaggerated; and its in fifieme yould be felt locally. But the pressure occasioned by an increase of taxation sufficient to enable Government to deny the war expenditure of the year out of the year's revenue would be felt over the whole kingdom, and would penetrate into every household. The manufacturers and their weekmen would suffer as much from it as others. This consideration appears conclusive in favour of . , Al -A THE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER STAMPS. I The return of newspaper stamps just issued gives the following results: Pim Quarter. 84cond Quarter. Daily News . 319,191 346,044 Morning Herald . 303 000 299,000 Morning Poet . . 205,000 226,000 Morning Chronicle . 162,600 186,000 Express . . 177,133 196,369 Globe . • . 176,000 196,000 Sun . . . . 168,000 192,000 Standard . . . 103,000 104,000 11