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not, of course, be expected to acquiesce altogether in the view which the g allant admiral takes of the transaction in question, but that view was so temperately expressed, and it was so natural that he should desire to place before the public his own version of the affair, that if his statement had stood alone I should not have thought it my duty to take any notice of it whatever. But I must say I read with some feeling of surprise the observations which fell from a right hon. baronet, the late First Lord of the Admiralty, who referred to a verdict which he stated had been pronounced upon the unfortunate misunderstand ing which arose'betwsen the gallant admiral and myself — a verdict which I have never seen, anctthe grounds of which Ido not know. It does seem to me to be a most unusual proceeding, when differences have occurred between two persons in any position of life, that a verdict should be given in favour of one of the parties without the other being in formed either of the result which has been arrived at or of the grounds upon which it' is based. (Hear.) I presume I shall know with the rest of your lordships what the verdict is when the papers now moved for have been placed in your hands. Of course Ido not intend to enter into the question now. I shall only say that I think when those papers are laid on the table your lordships will see that I was placed in a position of very great difficulty at the com mencement of 1858, with the forces at my disposal reduced by the demands of India and the requirements of the Canton garrison, with instructions directing me to obtain from the Chinese Government concessions which amounted to an entire subversion of the traditional policy of that great empire, and with orders to prosecute my mission in com bination not only with the representatives of France, with whom I had always acted, but also with the representa tives of two other Powers, Russia and America, who were still in the position of neutrals, and from whom, if we were forced into acts of hostility, we must entirely have broken off. I think you will gather from these papers that I had some good reason for believing that prompt,'direct, and energetic action in the shape of a demonetration in the neighbourhood of the Court of Pekin was the only expedi ent which seemed to afford any hope of our being able to bring to an early close, and without bloodshed, the war in which we were then engaged with China upon conditions consistent both with my instructions and with what I be lieved to be required by the honour and interests of this country. (Hear.) I can assure yonrlord ships that when I pro ceeded to the north I went in t he firm belief that the gallant Admiral was entirely cognisant of the policy I intended to pursue in that quarter, that he thoroughly sympathised with that policy, and that I might &ant upon his ready and energetic support. Ido not refer to private communica tions which passed between us, and of which no record is kept, but I had in my possession at the time a despatch, to which I may now refer, because it is before your lordships — a despatch written by the gallant admiral in answer .to my applications for gunboats, not stating that he did not know the object for which I wanted them, or that the monsoon or any other difficulty would prevent him from supplying thorn, but, on the contrary, stating most distinctly that the subject had been under his consideration for a long time, that one of the gunboats had already started, and that pre parations were being made for others to follow. (Hear, hear.) The best proof I could give of the entire confidence which I reposed in the gallant admiral is the fact that I went to the north, because it would have been an act of absolute insanity to do so had I not been supported by him when I arrived there. The admiral arrived and informed me, on the 21th of April, that so far from the gunboats being at hand, very few of them had been ordered to leave Hong Kong, and that those few would not leave until a period long after that at which I had been led to understand they were to arrive in the north. I confess that information filled mo with the greatest possible disappointment, and it is very probable that the despatches which I wrote at that time bore the reflex of my feelings. My disappointment arose from the fear which I entertained, not only that the policy I was en gaged in carrying out in that qUarter would be compromised by non-arrival of the gunboats, but that the commer cial interests, and even the lives of Europeans in the diffe rent open ports of China would also be placed in jeopardy ; because I apprehended that if we made an abortive attempt of that kind in the north the Emperor would be very likely to send down word to the authorities in the different pro vinces to attack the Europeans in the open ports. Our ap prehensions on that head were entirely borne out by what actually occurred. The Emperor did send down such a message as I anticipated to the provinces, but it took effect only at Canton. There the war was revived, and in con sequence we were so urgently entreated to send back from the north the forces we had collected there, on our advance to Tien-tsin, that we were obliged, as soon as the treaty of Tien-tsin was signed, to return to Canton. I had, there fore, to abandon the intention I always entertained of pro ceeding to Pekin myself, in order to deliver to the Emperor the letter of credence I was charged with. I believe that to that unfortunate omission the whole of our present dis asters are due, because I believe, if I had been able to de liver that letter of credence to the Emperor, I should have been able to have made such arrangements with the Impe rial Court as would have disposed of the delicate ques tion of the personal reception of the British Minister, and then none of the difficulties we are now involved in would have occurred. There is another point I must refer to, be cause the misconstruction repeatedly put on it in various quarters has created, very naturally, a strong prejudice against me. It has been observed that the despatches to which I havereferred, which were written home at the time, were not shown by me to the gallant admiral. That is per fectly true. I have been for 17 years employed in the public service, and I do not think I ever showed a despatch to any one but the Secretary of State. I am quite sure I never saw any despatch written to the head of a department in which my own conduct was commented upon. I have always regarded a despatch as a confidential communication which the Secretary of State alone was at liberty to relieve from the condition of secrecy. But I must solemnly say that when Admiral Seymour made to me the communication I have referred to, I stated to the gallant admiral that it was absolutely necessary, not only for my own vindication, but also in order that her Majesty's Government might be in possession of the facts of the case, that I should report in the fullest manner to the Government the extent to which, in my opinion, our prospects in the north were compromised by the failure on his part to furnish me with the armament on which I had relied. I added that if he had any counter statement to make, if he thought anything in my conduct, either in the way of omission or commission, was the cause of his failure, I begged of him to make a corresponding re port to the Admiralty, in order that the whole case might be before her Majesty's Government. My lords, I state this on my honour as a peer, and am quite ready to repeat it in any other more solemn form in which an asseveration can be made. I ought to add, and it is the only sentence in the whole of this address which I have any satisfaction in ut - tering, that, apart from the unfortunate misunderstanding I have alluded to, and which the looseness and forgetful ness pertaining to verbal communications may, perhaps, explain, nothing could be more loyal, more cordial, more generous, or more gallant than the support which I received from the navy dumg the whole course - of my service in the East. -I must say I think there wara pavfnrrnane..4 the British navy during that period of a most remarkable cha racter. I think the manner in which we visited many parts of the coast of Japan and the expedition for 600 miles up an unknown river, without pilot or chart, accomplished both in going and returning with perfect safety and good order, were transactions reflecting the highest credit on the gallant officers who were engaged in them. In alluding more parti cularly to these circumstances, I wish to say at the same time that an equal degree of gallantry and skill was shown by the whole fleet in all the operations which occurred, whether belligerent or otherwise ; and I have only to repeat what I have more than once said in private and official communi cations, that to the happy audacity of my gallant friend Captain Osborne, on board of whose ship I was for 16 months, I was much indebted for the success of my mil ' sion. (Hear, hear.) Lord COLCHESTER said that an imputation of the ut • most gravity had been cast upon the conduct of the gallant admiral who commanded in China at the time the events referred to by the noble earl took place. He would not then go into the question which had been raised ; but he begged their lordships to suspend their judgment on the matter until all the papers bearing upon it were before them. The motion was then agreed to; and their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COTTONS—(YESTERDAY , The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bill s . were read a second time :—London and North Western Railway (No. 2) ; London Railway Depot and Storehouses ; Moy I:Aver Navigation : Conway, Llanrwst, and Bettws y Coed Railway; Denbigh, Ituthin, and Corwen. Railway ; and Ulster Railway and Corpora tion of B:lfast. presentation o f ETITIONS. The portionspetitoir thee chiefly in favour of and against different an Chcellor of the Ex chequer's Budget, occupied nearly THE BUDGET. hour. Sir W. MILES said that he intended t o t;n move the omis sion of the 16 th and lith elo.uqes of the e dg r et, i and that the sum 10 d. should be r e d uced to 9 d. (lia TROOPS ENGAGED IN THE PERSIAN hear.) TROOPS Mr. ADAM asked t he Secretar y of State for India if A he R. wou ld state the substance of a n y c ommunication which h had lately rec eived from the Government of India, regard ing the payment of extra batta to the troops engaged in the Persian war; and, whether her Majesty's Government were prepared now to recommend the payment of such batta ? Sir C. WOOD said thnt the Government of India had recommended her Majesty's Government to allow six months' donation. If Parliament acceded to that proposi tion, no time would be lost in baking a financial vote on the subject. OFFICERS OF THE ARTILLERY. Lord BURGHLEY asked the Secretary of State for War when the field allowance claim ed by the officers of artillery and of the line, who were sent in the year 1857 to the attack of Canton, in lieu of the consolidated allowance which they were ordered in 'April, 1850, to refund, was to be repaid. Mr. S. HERBERT said that the allowance in ques tion had been granted to some of the officers, and would be paid to others who might apply for it. THE VOLUNTEER CORPS. Col. NORTH asked the Secretary of State for War, if the fees to be paid by officers of the volunteer cerps for their commissions will be the same in all counties ; and: if so, what amount they will be called on to pay. Mr. S. HERBERT said he had no authority to adjudi • cate on the question as to what amount of fees should be paid, but it was intended to pursue the precedent laid down by his predecessor in office. ITALY. Mr. PALK asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether a communication, made to her Majesty's Ambassador, was to the effect that, in the case of annexa tion of Central Italy to Sardinia, the French Government was of opiniun that it would be necessary for France to have some increase of territory on the side of Savoy : whe ther the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs will lay this despatch and communication upon the table of the house ? Lord J. RUSSELL said that it would not be convenient to supply the information required at presext, but he would do so that day f or t n i ght. THE ALLEGED BRIBERY AT NORWICH. Mr. E. JAMES inquired of the Attorney-General whether his attention had been called to certain proceedings at Norwich, with reference to the alleged bribery of one Joel Fox ; and to the refusal of a witness , a magistrate of the said city, to answer certain quest: es'', on the' ground that the answers thereto might tend t i o oli c s- criminate himself ; and to the conduct of certain other ma4 l s i t for the adjournment of a charge in which they wserionalvoletginegd to be implicated. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he did not think it neces sary to prefer any criminal indictment in the case al luded to. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, &c. (IRELAND). Lord D UNKELLIN affired the Chief Se cre t ary Ire land whether her Majesty's - Government proposed t o take any s t e ps towards the promotion of a general sy s t em of registration of births, deaths, and marriages in Ireland during this session of Parliament. Mr. CARD WELL said it was intended by Government to take such steps Odall early day.._ COMMISSION ON ED.UCATION. Sir J, PAKINGTOX asked the Vice-Frosideut of Cora- mittee of Council on Education when the report of the Royal Commission was likely to be presented to Parlia- ~~. duties to the amount of £250,000;. they would be pledged also—though on this point he was not so clear—to a further sacrifice of paper duty ; and, allowing at the same time for the payment of the remaining portion of the £250,000 of the Spanish debt, there would be a total deficit of £12,172,000 (Hear, hear.) Deducting this sum from the present revenue, it would leave exactly £58,392,000 to meet £71,100,000 of expenditure, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer would therefore have to announce to the House of Commons the meat ? Mr. LANE said that at present the report alluded to was not ready for presentation. THE FRENCH TREATY. In reply to Mr. E. BALL, Lord PALMERSTON said that it was competent to either party to this treaty to make a settlement in reference to any alteration or modification that might be made in its terms. He would take that opportunity of moving that tho house should adjourn at its rising that evening until two o'clock to-morrow, it being Ash Wednesday. MR. DU CANE'S MOTION. Sir J. GRAHAM said that he would avail himself of the opportunity afforded by the motion of the noble lord to address the house on a point of order. The honour able member for Essex had placed on the table a motion which was not in conformity with the general precedents of the house. He was of opixion that no resolution could be proposed in committee of supply. However, in 1853, it was permitted to the right hon. member to move a resolution in reference to the in- come-tax, but that was a precedent which ought not to be followed, as it was likely to prove dangerous. (Hear, hear.) He would submit, therefore, to the house that it was not competent for an hon. member to move a resolution in committee not arising out of a question of revenue. It was necessary that there should be an ample discussion on the financial policy of the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which could not be raised on the motion of the hon. pleasing intelligence of a deficit of L 12,700,000. (Hear.) If they took into consideration, as he thought they were bound to do, the probability that, instead of an increased, there would be a diminished consumption resulting from the reduction of the wine duties, with a reduction of the malt tax arising from a diminished consumption of beer— (hear, hear)—they would be very safely justified in assum• ing that the deficiency would not be far off £13,000,000. The house must seriously consider what was likely to be the position of Parliament at that time. The night of Feb. 20, 180, must have been destined long ago by the fates to be a very remarkable era in the annals of Parliament. It was not often that their Parliamentary bill of fare was so luxuriously catered for as it had been on that memorable occasion with dainties of the first class. Seldom, if ever, did it happen that the Government of the country had to choose in presenting to the house on the same evening be tween three subjects of such vital importance to the future welfare of the country as a French treaty, a budget, and a bill fir the amendment of the representation of the people. (Hear, hear.) Although he had not the honour to agree in many political doctrines of the hon. member for Birming ham, yet, from what he had read of his speeches out of doors, the hon. member would concur with him when he said that the subjects of a budget and a Reform Bill were very nearly allied—(hear, hear) —inasmuch as it must be the general tone and character of the Parliamentary majo rity of that house that must ultimately determine the gene ral nature and incidence of the taxation of the country. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord, owing to circumstances over which altogether he had no control, had postponed the pro duction of his Reform Bill till what he sincerely hoped would be a more auspicious occasions. It was not for him on the present occasion to widen the field of discussion by endeavouring to anticipate what the probable provisions of the Reform Bill might be ; but he thought at the same time he should be interpreting the general wish both of the house and the people of the country when he said that there was a growing feeling among both that this great constitutional question of Parliamentary Reform should not be made the stalking-horse by which to hurl Ministry after Ministry from office, and that they should, if possible, member. After some discussion on the point of order, Lord PALMERSTON said that of course the hon member would be the best judge of the course he intended to pursue. If however, he wished to press his motion he would postpone the further progress of the committee on the Customs' Act. (Hear, hear.) Mr. DU CANE said he would avail himself of the offer of the noble lord, and proceed with his motion. Mr. GLADSTONE observed that he would not move his resolution relative to foreign wines before Friday next. Mr. DU CANE then rose to move, in a substantive form, the resolution of which he had given notice in reference to the financial statement of the Government. In doing so he expressed a hope that it was needless to assure the house that he felt ho was about to trespass upon their attention under circumstances of no ordinary embarrassment. The financial scheme to which he was about to offer his oppo sition was one of a character so complicated and . so dif ficult, and had, moreover, been submitted to the house in a speech of such remarkable eloquence and subtlety of rea soning, that nothing but the kind indulgence and forbear ance of hon. members and the confidence which ho felt in the justice of .his cause could sustain him in the course which he had deemed It to be his duty to take, (Hear, hear.) :Ile entertained no doubt that it would be his fate to hear during the progress of the discussion to which his mo tion would give rise, as he had already heard it faintly whispered out of doors, that in allowing himself to bring forward the present resolution he had suffered himself to be made an instrument in supporting a party and a factious movement. He could only say in answer to such a charge that if the words " partymovement" were to be interpreted as indicating the existence of a desire on his part to inter pose needlessly between the house and the discussion of the proposals of the Government in Committee with the view to embarrass the Ministry, and by that means to check the further 'Regress of useful and beneficial legislation, the ac cusation was entirely unfounded, and the house, ho felt assured, would deem it unnecessary that he should enter any more energetic protest against its justice. (Cheers.) So far from the charge to which he referred being true, he believed he was giving expression not merely to his own sentiments, but to those of a large number of hon. gentle men by whom ho was surrounded, when he asserted that it was to them a matter of extreme regret that the finan cial proposals of the Chancellor of the Exchequer were of such a nature as to render it impossible that they could re ceive—in their leading features, at least—from his (Mr. Du Cane's) side of the house an independent support. If, how ever by the charge which he had mentioned it was intended to be implied that he had come forward manfully ant openly to throw down the gauntlet in opposition to the scheme of the Government, which he believed to be both unsound and unjust—(cheers)---and thereby openly and manfully to vindicate what he regarded as true and sound Conservative policy—if to act so could be termed a "party move," then he frankly and gladly accepted that descrip tion of his resolution. (Cheers.) He might now, perhaps, be permitted to say, as some return for the compliment which the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Ex chequer had been pleased to pay him on the previous even ing, that if, in the present instance, he found it impossible to give his proposals a warm support, the right hon. gen tleman would, at all events, learn that he was something better than a mistrustful adherent or a lukewarm partisan —an open and candid enemy. (Hear, hear.) He should next proceed to lay before the house as briefly as he could the main objections which ho enter tained to the financial scheme of the Government. Ho ob jected to the budget in the first instance because it appeared to him not merely to fail to grapple with the financial exi gencies of our preseht position, but to be calculated to leave the country worse than it found it, and to lead to a state of increasing financial difficulty. (Hear.) He objected to it, in the second place,•lecause ho was of opinion thatthe principal remissions of taxation which it proposed—and he alluded more especially to the reduction and abolition of the duties on wine and paper—proposals which, though, perhaps, unob jectionable in themselves if made at the proper time, yet were singularly inopportune at the present moment—were highly inexpedient, especially when it was borne in mind that the income-tax was to be continued at a rate higher than it had ever before been known to have reached in time of peace. (Cheers.) Andlastly, he objected to the budget because it seemed to him to be based upon an unnecessary and one-sided commercial treaty. (Hear, hear.) He had en tertained the hope that tha acceinitnacton at which the house would have arrived on the previous evening might have relieved him from touching upon the merits of that treaty, but he had been disappointed in. that expectation, and the house was at that moment, he could not help think ing, placed in the anomalous position that they could not at any future period amend the terms of the treaty, if they should deem it expedient to do so, without essentially vitia ting some important feature of the budget (hear, hear), while they could not venture to alter in any of its main points the budget itself without running the risk of vitiat. ing and annulling the treaty. (Hear, hear.) Her Ma jesty's Government, in short, acting upon the division which had taken place the previous evening, called upon hon. members to open their mouths to the widest possible stretch, and to swallow in one great gulp the budget and the treaty combined. (Cheers and laughter.) All he could say was, that if Parliament and the country could swallow such a dose, they must henceforth be prepared to make up their minds to swallow anything which might be presented to their notice. (A laugh.) He should now, with the per mission of . the house, proceed to recount as briefly and as ' succinctly as he was able those which appeared to him to be the main features of our financial position, as stated by the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer in introducing the budget. The right hon. gentleman esti mated the income of the country for the present year at £60,700,000 ; its expenditure at £70,100,000 ; the deficit for the year being thus£9,4oo,ooo. Well, that being so, .the right hon. gentleman, acting nppn a very simple, but at the same time a very novel principle as applied to financial matters, that his deficit— . " Was great because it was so small, And if 'twere greater would be none at all," —(a laugh)—proposed to increase it by the reduction of some and tLe total abolition of other duties to the extent of £4,000,000 upon articles which, to use the words of the noble lord the member for London in his first despatch to Lord Cowley and Mr. Cobden, " are not in general articles of such primary necessity or such universal use among the people of the United Kingdom as to entitle them upon that ground to the special attention of the Government." (Hear.) The right hon. gentleman had then prOeeeded to reduce the deficiency with which he had to deal to the ex tent of £2,000,000 by means of sundry savings in the Re venue Department, by making certain allowances for the increase of consumption which would be consequent on his contemplated reductions of duty, as well as by sundry new' charges. The total deficiency of the year would, under those circumstances, still have been according to his own esti mate, £11,500,000, which deficiency he proposed to supply in part by re-imposing the income-tax at the rate of 10d. in the pound, thus securing a sum of £8,472,000. He re • imposed also the extra duties on tea and sugar, and called in the hop and malt credits to the extent of £1,400,000. These the ri g t h o t £1. h 1 0 , n 97 . 2 g ,o e o n O n e n i T a nhrsn own then showing,treaty, ac cordingw shouldentheremit ste have ebwteae s lookedobserve,o n a e sreiPiriptlluoinst.hloaeyrs £Ol first ns7los,iiotn3eos9mOt, instance, noo ? B e ,e u ,ao tr thathte h askedeethereabouts, atbh the oeuset s , c tohm itemsa character in amount, as it was supposed purely te btes s derived speculative a fr t i e v m e also bear in mind that,acc)rding to this A r e the increased consumption of wines and Fs • ' . ti li e e y y w nl eui us d t have to submit to a further reduction of these scheme, to the extent of £250,000. He would next ask them to observe that,byanticipating the malt and hop credits to the a poZt un o t f of £1,400,0 00 , the tight hon. gentleman was, i n fact, anticipating the remaining portion of a sum of £2,500,000, which had hitherto been considered, and by no body more than the right hon. gentleman himself, in the light of a loan by the Government to the malting and hop interests of the country; and, therefore, while on the one hand, by anticipating these credits, he caused very consi derable annoyance and injury to the smaller mem bersP°9itiv"right of the malting interest, the hon.. gentleman availed, himself at the same tini m o f f a r y 7wintigeydtiemporary expedient; and the house would ing that no such sum as £1,400,000 would be forthcoming he would call the There was a third matter to which next year, to meet the financial. exigencies of the country. the payment of • d of three years e. postpones for a perm atten tion of the house,.and that was that the right hon, gentle manpresent year. These f h to be re issued, bonds would there ore ave £1,000,000 of Exchequer-bonds, which became due in the was to have they had to encounter in this year of bliss,. that and, therefore, one of the very first happy results was the addition of a very considerable amount to the un fundedt been marked by the falling in of the Terminable Annuities, debt of the country. (Hear, hear.) He must next ask the house to bear in mind that the income tax of 10d. in the pound . And the war taxes on tea and sugar were only re • imposed for one year, and therefore the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the year 1851-62, whoever he might have the good or bad fortune to be—for he confessed ho never consi dered the position of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to be a very enviable one—the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1861-62 could not possibly count upon a renewal of this tax without obtaining the formal consent of Parliament. Let him carry the house for a moment in imagination to the commencement of the year 1861, and ask them what would be their novel financial position. Unless the house should agree, which in the present state of the continent he thought most improbable, to sanction a material reduction of the army and navy estimates, the expenditure would be very much the same 'as at 'present—£7o,7oo,ooo at least; and to this he might also add £1,000,000 Exchequer bonds. What, then, would be the state of the income ? They would have virtually parted with the income tax and with the tea and sugar duties ; they would have anticipated the , malt dillies ; and they would h ave d one a little more. They nao pledged themselves to a further reduction of the wine during the present session endeavour to effect dsatisfactory settlement of the question. (Hear.) Let the house in dulge him in what at the present moment must appear to be rather a wide stretch of the imagination. Conceive the budget passed, the Reform Bill passed, with a new Parlia ment elected by constituencies into which many new and popular elements had been introduced—what would be the condition of affairs with which that Parliament would have to grapple ? They would have, in the first place, a defi ciency of £13,000,000 to deal with—an income tax of 101 in the pound, renewed for one year, shortly about to expire. They would find the tax which every statesman in the Parliamentary history of the country, from Mr. Pitt down to Sir R. Peel, and from Sir R. Peel to the present Chan cellor of the Exchequer, had successively deprecated as a permanent element in the taxation of the country. What I would bo the inevitable eonsequence ? That house would then stand between Scylla and Charybdis. If they passed the budget and carried into effect the provisions of the treaty, they would. have cut off several of the most useful and most harmless sources of indirect taxation; and one of two evils would certainly ensue—either the reformed House of Commons would seize with avidity upon the engine that was presented ready to their hands, and they would see this tax, which they had so long deprecated, in its most odious form, established as a permanent feature in our system of taxation r and gradually mounting to a height which must make it utterly intolerable ; or, on the other hand, they would see a hardly less dangerous course adopted—they would see an ignorant impatience of expenditure running riot in that house, developing its first effects in the revival of that miserable cheese-paring economy which had already brought such disastrous consequences, on this country— which disbelieved in war till the enemy was thundering at our gates, and laughed to scorn all idea of national defence. (Hear, hear.) Let the Chancellor of the Exchequer beware how, with that great gulf yawning before him, he sought to reimpose this tax in its aggravated shape. He would say to that right hon. gentleman—" Can it be you, who ex hausted all the power of your matchless eloquence and closest subtlety of reasoning to prove the inquisitorial and objectionable nature of this tax, the utter impossibility of its retentionin any form as apermanent feature of our taxation, and the expediency of reserving it as a potent engine for spe cial occasions—can it be you who are now throwing aside all thought of the future, heedless of the reckless legislation which your present proposals may provoke ?" (Hear, hear.) Who did not remember the budget of 1853 and the brilliant oration which had since served as a textbook of political economy to every schoolboy—who did not remember how the right hon. gentleman minutely analysed and scattered to the winds every conceivable scheme by which that tax could be established in a graduated form? And now, when the hour for the:financial millenium had arrived, the same right hon. gentleman remorselessly put a new load on their backs, cut the rope, and sent the vessel of the State adrift in the vortex of a financial whirlpool. (Hear, hear.) There were various reasons why a reduction of that tax might have come with a peculiar grace from the right hon. gentleman. The people of this country had without a murmur made the sacri fices and borne the burdens of war. They had consented to endure a heavy taxation on the necessaries of life because they believed that as soon as an extraordinary exigency was passed measures would be proposed that would carry wel come relief to every cottage in the land. These hopes, how ever, seemed doomed to disappointment. The people now learnt for the first time in our history that they were to be subjected to an oppressive load of taxation in order to assist a neighbour in difficulties, who was himself—for they could not conceal it from themselves—the cause of their extrava gant expenditure. (Hear.) They knew that a lavish and un called for generosity to France was openly vaunted as a noble achievement for the Government of this country. (Hear.) Xi - Lowing this, the people would ask where were the four millions of indirect taxation that they were about to sacri • five so recklessly ? That question the Conservative party were now endeavouring to have answered; and when it wa.s said that party connexion should have nothing to do with this movement, he for one thanked God that the name and traditions of party were not yet extinct ; that there was still a pal ty left in the country—call it Conservative or call it what they pleased'—which would put forth its strength and animate its ranks to support the effort of an inde pendent member to confront oppression and quell injus tice. (Cheers.) Let him now turn to another part of the question, and let him say that, while he thought the duties now pressing heavily on the necessaries of life had the first claim to revision, he would not deny that the reduction of the wine duties might be fairly dealt with at some future . period. Putting aside, however, for the moment, the in Wr of the grant couzaudiLE, awaaca of the country to have some remission of the malt-tax and the duties on tea and sugar, he would look at the reduction of the wine duties as an abstract question, both in regard to its probable effect on the interest of the consumer and its effect on the public revenue. Since the scheme of the Go vernment was first proposed he had consulted several high authorities on this matter, and they one and all agreed in thinking that, whatever might be the expediency of an ulti mate reduction of the wine duties, never was there so inop portune a time for making that reduction as the present. (Hear.) The right hon. gentleman had drawn a pleasing picture of the halcyon days about to arrive, when under his proposed arrangement wine would no longer be a rich man's luxury, and the choicest vintages of France and Spain would flow in upon us. It was therefore necessary, however pain ful the task, to arouse the right hon. gentleman from his happy dream and conduct him back to the realm of sober realities. (A laugh.) It was an undoubted fact, which could not be gainsaid, that at that this moment, partly from the continued vine disease and partly from a succession of bad harvests, the stock of wine i'i the hands of the principal dealers in the south of France and in Spain was now so diminished that nothipg but the return of four or five con secutive harvests of more than average productiveness could restore that stock to its normal condition. Another fact, to which ho challenged contradiction, was that the wine mer chants of Bordeaux, anticipating a very considerable rise in price as the first effect of the reduction in the duty, were now withholding all the stock they possibly could from the English markets, and in many instances the Spanish wine dealers were refusing to part with their stock at all. He also believed that the great bulk of the retail dealers in this city were now laying in their stocks for the year in order if pos sible to escape the rise in price which they foresaw as the re sult of the reduction of duty. But supposing no rise at all occurred what was that price likely to be ? Ho held in his hand an extract from the circular of the London correspon dent of one ofthe largest and best known houses at Bordeaux. He found from that circular that the cheapest wine, pure and sound to bear exportation, cost at the rate of LlO per hogshead at Bordeaux, which, under present rates of duly, would bring the cost in this - country to something like 255, or 265. per dozen, and, with the proposed reduced duties would cost 20s. or 21s. per dozen. That might be a pure wine certainly, but it would be of the thinnest and poorest character, utterly unfitted, unless a great change should take place in English tastes, for English palates. (Hear, hear.) That was the beverage that was to flow into this country in such a stream as to supplant the principal be verage of the country, to check the cultivation of barley, and to inflict almost irreparable injury upon the maltsters, the farmers, and the brewers of this country. (Hoar.) The very idea of such a thing, however, appeared so absurd that ho should not presume to stand before the committee as the farmer's friend with an agricultural grievance, but he must ask the right hon. gentleman what sort of even-handed justice it was he proposed to deal out in the name of free trade when lie left the highly-taxed growers and manufas e turers of the principal beverage of the country to enter into competition with the untaxed foreigner. (Hear, hear.) It might be that some of the Spanish wines would be more acceptable to English tastes than cheap French wines, but it must be borne in mind that Spain was suffering under the effects of repeated bad harvests, and that the stock of wine in hand was very much diminished. The right hon. gentleman had treated the house with an interesting and pathetic narrative of the evils of adulteration, and from his language it would almost appear that adulteration was a crime unknown to foreign countries and peculiarly indige nous to English soil. (Hear.) It was, however, an established fact that adulteration of wine was openly practised to a very . great extent at Bordeaux and elsewhere. (Hear, hear.) Much ollhe wine manufactured at Bordeaux was but a sort of Arag,onese or- Catalonian syrup, imported across the, d‘pme( wines, srni competition frontier, and after undergoing a process of conversion at Bordeaux, it was returned across the frontier as prime Bor (Hear, hear.) There was a port in the Gulf of Lyons called Cotte, the chief business of whose popula tion was nothing more nor less than wholesale adulteration. uih e odasanrl with hatshasupposingtco ohu eprar Adulteration tpoehywwaentin ttandf eowfu unknown d a et s iuegrt notorious niaetesor rsws efrrameral manufacture, mfenarte ceeidrentering Portuguesenrnaegds withpfintour o what effect, to quote the right t o hon. gentleman's own words, upon the British public he need not say ? Reverting, how inmheilsboo:nke ever, to the possible supply of pure wine, he would give an n a ow la le r d g g e e c o o f n w s h i at had occurred in e ti w m h e i w ch in c e o w st as aboutlOa. doze n a t Australia. Some time since one of the largest firms at Bor deaux including i cl us ea t u an x ce sen w t iti t l o t a t w ha in tp er B 4, o olo e d au ca x e . n of A generally cheaper, and cons equently the particular win e h o re f erre d to was' of a better quality than could now be produced for the same price. After a considerable interval, the Bordeaux mer chants received a letter from their correspondent at Mel bourne, informing them that the wine in question was un saleable among the lower and middle classes, and requesting that wine of a superior quality and higher price might be sent in its place. (Hear.) And that was the article from which, during the present year, the Chancellor of tho Ex chequer expected to derive £530,000 at the reduced scale of duties. (Hear.) Upon that ingenious but speculative theory the committee were called upon to supersede our na ' e• oft duties upon wine, which was tive beverage by taking now and must for seine time continue to be emphatically a luxury of the rich, and yet to continue the war taxes upon tea and sugar, which were the necessaries of the poor. (Hear, hear.) He would conclude his observations upon the sub ject of the wine duties by quoting the remarks lately made to him by a gentleman i n ti ma t e ly acquainted with Bordeaux i I and well up n the mysteries of the wine trade, That gen impartial treaty, why should the Government have endea voured to stifle the discussion of it ? why should it have been smuggled into the house and shaken out of the same bag as the budget —a pair of worthy companions undoubtedly? (Hear.) It was said that a similar treaty was one of the most glorious acts of Mr. Pitt ; but now it appeared that Mr. Pitt's policy was so antiquated that it was necessary totally to reverse it. He took the treaty first, and then the budget ; we were to have the treaty and the budget together, and then, when the mischief was done, there was to be a sepa rate discussion on the treaty It was said that this haste was necessary in order to defeat the opposition of the French Legislative Assembly, which in this instance spoke the wish of a large majority of the French people ; but this was, in his opinion, an additional reason why the measure should receive the strongest opposition. They were told that the extension of commercial intercourse - with France would tleman had said, " If I were a Bordeaux wine merchant, I should be in raptures with the proposed budget. If I were an English wholesale dealer, depending for custom upon the higher classes of society, I should bo simply indifferent. But if I were an English retaildealer, depending upon the lower classes, and having, as I inevitably should, to meet i ncrease d p r ices and diminished consumption as its first effects, I should oppose it tootl and nail. (Hear, hear.) Having considered the wine &ties, ho would next, refer to the intended abolition of the paler duty. He did not stand forward to advocate the retenton of that duty as a perma nent feature of our taxation, for would he advocate the retention of any tax which might be in any way injurious to the spread of education, HE would not attempt to follow the right hon. gentleman into lie interesting and ingenious account which ho gave of the various trades in whose manu factures paper formed a prircipal ingredient; still less would he attempt to grapple wth the pleasing feature,•No. 2 of the budget, which referral to the blessings about to fall upon the agricultural poptiation by covering the banks of all our streams with innumerable paper-mills. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) He migat . safely leave that portion of the right hon. gentleman's •emarks to be dealt with by the great Leviathan of the prea, which, a day or two since, in a few brief sentences, completely dispelled the vision which he had conjured up. Bat when the right hon. gen tleman said that he considered himself bound, to no small extent, by the fact that a resolution of the house had con demned the tax, he (Mr. Du Cine) had heard that statement with surprise. (Hear hear.) If a vague and shadowy reso lution of the house, passed at my time, was to be a sufficient justification of the abolition of ). tax, how could the right hon. gentleman justify for a moment the retention of the income tax (Hear, hear.) If therewas one tax which more than another the house had condemned as a permanent feature of taxation, not by one vague refolution, but repeated majori ties led by the right hon. gentleman himself, and even by statute, it was the income talc (Hear, hear.) If there was one tax which more than another the present Government, judging from the former profossions of its members, should have left untouched, it was tle paper duty. (Hear, hear.) In his memorable budget of 1353 the right hon. gentleman might have dealt both with •he wine duty and the paper duty. Ho had then all the inancial world open to him, but he left both those dutes unaltered. (Hear, hear.) Fri:nu that time until 1857 the house heard very little in deed of reduction of taxation (Hear, hear.) But in the year 1857 the right hon. baronet the present Home Secre tary, who was then Chancelbr of the Exchequer, made a financial statement, in which he thus spoke of the paper carry with it, to the furthest ends of Europe, the bless hags of peace and civilisation. An object such as this would at all times enlist his hearty (concurrence ; but he ventu* to question the means by which these blessings were to be extended, and the permanence of an alliance which was to be cemented in such a fashion. He had now brought to a close his remarks on the financial propositions of her Majesty's Government, having, he feared, but feebly and inefficiently dischargod the duty which he had under ; taken. He had endeavoured to show that the financial scheme of her Majesty . 's Government was one which failed to grapple with the exigencies of the time, and had disap pointed the just expectations of the people ; he had at tempted to show that it was based on unsound and danger ous principles of finance, that it was clogged with a com mercial treaty, and that it forced a rivalry of commercial interests upon an irritated and distrustful nation. The proposition had been recommended to them as a budget of peace—he called on the house to reject it emphatically as a bUdget of war—of war to the future security of our domestic interests, and to the future permanence and tranquillity of our foreign relations. He had listened and shared in the thrill of admiration at that magnificent peroration in which the right hon. gentleman commended his financial scheme to an impartial trial at the bar of the British Legislature and of British public opinion. - That impartial trial he did not doubt they would both receive at the hands of Parlia ment. But the right hon. gentleman had so often charmed the house, with his eloquence—his tongue had so often dropped manna, and made the worse appear the better reasou—that if it were left to some novice in Parliamentary discussions to decide, he would feel at a loss whether to select him as a model for future study or for present imita tion. If, in the course of his varied career, he had shown that he could with signal success invoke an English House of Commons to sanction his own elaborated schemes of duty : " I confess, having carefully considered the subject, I do not believe that the total abolition of the paper duty would produce to the ordinary purchaser of books any appreciable advantage. Therefore, Sir, without at all denying the claims of the paper duty to be considered at a time when our expenditure may be less and our revenue may be greater, I cannot admit that at the present moment it is a proper subject for remission." (Hear, hear.) The house must bear in mind that at that time the right hon. baronet was a rare avis in financial history—a Chancellor of the Exchequer with a surplus; and such was the condition of financial plethora he enjoyed that the hon. member for the West Riding of Yorkshire said he could only aptly compare him to a prize ox in the midst of butchers. (Cheers and laughter.) But upon what grounds and upon what theory of taxation did the right hon. baronet go on to justify the retention of the paper duty ? The right hon. baronet justified it upon a theory ;of taxation which for the most part commanded his cordial assent, but which was as nearly as possible the direct oppo site of the present budget. (Hear, hear.) The right hon. baronet quoted from the writings of Adam Young : " If I was," says Adam Young, "to define a good sys tem of taxation, it should be that of bearing lightly on an infinite number of points, heavily on none. In other words, that simplicity in taxation is the greatest additional weight that can be given to taxes, and ought in every country to be most sedulously avoided." (Cheers.) A few days afterwards a still more extraordinary scene took place in the house. The present Chancellor of the Exchequer made a furious onslaught upon the financial statement, and condemned the budget as being based upon principles of finance utterly contrary to any which the country had before adopted. It seemed that those high financial authorities had been able to compose their differ ences, as they now sat side by side in the same Cabinet. (Hear.) He begged the house to listen to the terms of the memorable resolution on the paper duty e— " That this house is of opinion that the maintenance of the excise duty on paper as a permanent source of revenue would be impolitic." The house would see at once that it was a resolution assert ing a mere abstract principle of the very vaguest character, and could not, by the widest possible construction, be sup posed in any way to fetter the house as to the right time to deal with the paper duty. (Hear.) Perhaps the house would agree with him that one of the shortest and 'most sensible speeches ever made in Parliament was made on that occasion by his hon. friend the member for Malden, who interrupted the Speaker in putting the question to say, " I suppose it is fully understood that the resolution means no thing ?" (Cheers.) It wasa remarkable fact that the nearer they approached the present time the stronger were the ob jections of members of the present Government to deal with the paper duty. The language of the right hon. baronet in 1857 was sufficiently strong, but it was very mild compared with the language of the noble lord the Foreign Secretary. On a subsequent occasion the noble lord said : " The house would recollect that last year the Chan cellor of the Exchequer proposed that the income tax should be kept up at 7d. in ,the pound, and instead of ls. 3d. the duty on te a s h ou ld bells. 5d., with a proportionate in crease of the sugar duties. This year they had allowed the income tax to fall from 7d. to sd. in the pound, but they had kept up the duty on tea to ls. 5d., and retained the proportionate increase of the sugar duties. It was, therefore, almost a matter of good faith that when next there was a reduction of taxes those duties on tea and sugar should be reduced, which were, in fact, war duties, and there could be no greater claim for reduction than upon articles which entered so largely into the comforts of the people." (Cheers.) That was an argument which he must say he entirely approved of. But a change appeared to have come over the spirit of the noble lord's dream. The Chancellor of the Exchequer this year proposed to retain and increase the income-tax, to re-impose the war duties on tea and sugar, and to abolish the paper duty. And the noble lord sat by his side and applauded the proposition. (Cheers.) Throughout this elaborate financial scheme, and in this part particularly, he discerned a desire to conciliate the goodwill and support of a certain section, without whose support they were told that no Administration could en dure for a day. He remembered to have heard the hon. member for Rochdale (to whom they were indebted for the construction of this French treaty) say that he addressed the house in the name of the people who, lived in towns. They had before them a budget which bore but too plainly a town image and superscription. If there were one epithet which would better describe it than another It was culling it a Manchoot., budget. (Loud cheers.) The President of the Board of Trade was a very able and distinguished member of the house. His administrative abilities were doubtless as useful in the Cabinet as his destructive powers were effectual out of the Cabinet. Yet, great as they might be, he could not help thinking the people would consider they purchased those talents at a somewhat dear rate with dear tea, dear sugar, and an increased income-tax. (Cheers.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer told them the other night that if they wished permanently to benefit a people, they should set free their trade. In that doctrine, if carried out honestly and - impartially, he entirely concurred. But he thought that at the present time the middle classes would feel they were poorly recompensed for an:in creased income-tax by a dream of cheap wine, and the masses of the working population would feel they were sadly compensated for the sacrifices which they had cheerfully made by dear tea and dear sugar. (Cheers.) There were doubtless msuayimpdrtant questions which would be sure to arise in the course of the discussions—many taxes, no doubt, in the scheme to which opposition would be made—but they were already provided with appropriate champions. Such questions as the grievances of the silk trade, of the licensed victuallers, and of the hop-growers would better be discussed further on in, committee, inas much as they did not go to the heart of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's propositions. But from the number of amend ments which were rapidly gathering on the paper, from the number of grievances which had been put into his hands ever since he had given notice of his amendment, and from the number of public meetings which had been held up and down the country, the right hon. gentleman must be pretty well aware by now what a nest of hornets he had, got into. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) But he would now go on to consider his last objection to the budget—its foundation bn a one-sided and uncalled foe commercial treaty. One of the sentences in the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech the other evening most loudly cheered by those around him was that in which he said, " We have done doubly good—good for ourselves if France had done nothing, and doubly good because France had dyne a great deal." The right hon. gentleman himself trust admit that the converse of that proposition was true, and that if what he had done could be shown to be financialle bad, it was doubly bad in connection with a one-sided treaty. It had been his fortune to enter the house just at the close of the great struggle be tween free trade and protection, and he was one of those who went throu!la what was called the ceremony of " bow ing the knee," but in thus bowing to the voice of the coun • try he had always understood that the policy of free trade was hereafter to be adopted by the country in its fullest and most extended sense. (Hear, hear.) But the more he scrutinised this treaty the more puzzled was he to discover on what principle it was framed. If it was free trade they were aiming at, why, in the name of the past freertrad.e, had they taken up with such an extraordinary plea sure as a free trade treaty? It could not be .re ciprocity surely, for reciprocity he had always understood must be conducted on fair and equal terms. .To use a fa miliar instance, if you asked a man to your house one week and he asked you back to his the next, and treated you with much the same fare, that would be reciprocity ; but if you were called upon to admit into your house at all times and seasons a crotch etty neighbour, who kept his door absolutely slammed in your face for ono year to come, and then only promised to open it half-way, keeping up a good strong chain all the time to see how he liked you, that was not re ciprocity. (Cheers.) The house had been told the other night, that our old friend Protection, having been driven from the palaces of the earth, had taken refuge in holes and corners. The hon. member for West Norfolk, if the quo tation had occurred to him, 'while defending the rags and remnants of his ancient faith, might have replied,— " Extrema per illos " Justitia excedens terris vestigia fecit." financial.policy, ho had shown also that for the measures o, a rival he had spells to invoke them to censure and con demn. (Hear, hear.) It might be that in the hands of an uninstructed novice the charm of the arch-magician would lose its power—it might bo that the arrow which he now ventured to borrow from his quiver would recoil upon him self—(hear, hear) ;—and he would, therefore, conclude the imperfect observations which he had addressed to the house in the same words which, eight years ago, summoned the house to pronounce the dooes of a Conservative budget and make an end of a Conservatibe Administration : " I feel it ray duty to use that freedom of speech which I am sure, as Englishmen, you will tolerate, when I tell you that if you give your assent and your high authority to this most unsound and destructive principle on which the financial scheme of the Government is based—you may refuse my appeal now—you may accompany the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer into the lobby; but my belief is that the day will come when you will look back upon this vote—as its consequences sooner or later unfold themselves—you will look back upon this vote with bitter, but with late and-ineffectual regret." (Cheers.), The hon. gentleman concluded by moving the following resolution :—" That this house, recognising the necessity of providing for the increased expenditure of the coming financial year, is of opinion that it is not expedient to add to the existing deficiency by diminishing the ordi nary revenue, and is not prepared to disappoint the just ex pectations of the country by re-imposing the income tax at an unnecessarily high rate." Mr. BENTINCIC seconded the motion. . Mr. LEVESON GOWER said he believed the budget, as a general scheme, carried out the great commercial policy initiated by Sir R. Peel. For that policy he entertained the greatest admiration ; but the motion which they had just heard was in every respect opposed to it. There could be no doubt that all the objections they had heard against the treaty were based upon protectionist principles. There was no force in the objection that it was a one-sided treaty, for, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer had explained, they could not expect to receive indemnity frosn another coun try, but should be satisfied at receiving additional benefit from the engagement itself. (Hear, hear.) Protected trades suffered by the very protection afforded to them. Mr. Ellice, of Coventry, and Mr. Williams, of Maccles field, objected to the free trade proposals of the late Mr. Huskisson on the ground that, if they were carried, Coven try and Macclesfield would' be ruined. Ho was sure that the hon. member for Coventry was now glad that he had failed in opposing Mr. Huskisson's proposition, because the state of Coventry and Macclesield showed the advantages which had resulted to Them from free trade. Next it was said that the reductiop. of the wine duty would not increase the sale of wine. But this he denied, for on referring to Mr. M'Cullagh's book, he found it there clearly demonstrated that the reduction of duty always led to a large increase in the sale of the article on which the reduc tion took place. But it was said that wine would never be an article of consumption here, as it was not suited to the taste of the people or to the climate of England. But what was the fact ? Why let them take the article of claret. In Holland the importation of that character of wine was five times what it was in this country, and though the popula tion of Holland was considerably smaller than that of this country, yet the consumption of wine was fifty times greater than it was in this country. Yet Holland was a much colder country than England. The facts were applicable to Sweden, Hanover, and other northern countries. Now, until the duty on wine was lessened, they never could hope to establish free trade with France, but a reduction of the wine duty would lead in the end to this desirable result. Then, with respect to coal, it was said that by taking off the duty on that article, they were giving up an advantage to France which would be highly prejudicial to this country. But how so ? Not, certainly, as regarded the quantity of coal produced in this country, for, according to the autho rity of the best geologists, there would be sufficient seal in this country to supply the industrial requirements of this country for the next 2,000 years. This being eo, he thought it was time enough at the end of that time to consider the effect of foreign ports being opened for the admission of our coal free of duty. (Hear, bear.) The argument, too, that the 11th article of the treaty would onahlo Franco to have English coal cheaper than England herself, was purely a fallacy. He had recently read a paper on the subject of coal in Franca, and it was clearly shown that there was in that country a large quantity of coal suited to maritime purposes, but no efforts had been made to extract it. If France would persevere in the course of policy initiated by the treaty of commerce, by other acts of a similar character, the result will be that the people will cultivate the arts of peace, and instead of following the false glare of military glory, would seek to exalt their country among the nations of the earth, on account of the manner in which she sought to promote the advance of trade and commerce, and those arts by which its social and industrial character would be upheld. Lord ROBERT MONTAGU said it might be true that the, reaty with France was, commercially speaking, a good treaty, but there were other interests to be considered in re gard to this treaty. The Emperor of the French seemed to act upon the principle of the necromancer in the Arabian tale, who' cried "Old lamps for new ones." He said to Eng land that she had old shippinglaws and Customs duties and that if she gave them up he would give in exchange new principles that would promote their welfare, while it served France. They had, however, the fact communicated to them that the proposed change had given offence in France and he must say, notwithstanding the assertion to the con trary, that the treaty was not advantageous to this country. He contended that the 3d article of the treaty was clearly against the interest of the shipping of this country, while it was beneficial to that of France ; and, as to ecal, that article was to be sent everywhere free of duty except to the metro polis of this country. In 1842 when Sir R. Peel imposed the income tax it was to be only for three years, and when the Chancellor of the Elchequer imposed it in 1853, he said it was to bo only for a short period. It seemed however to be a perpetual tax renewable from year to year. (Hear.) Mr. BAXTER said that representing as ho did great commercial interests, he was desirous of offering a few observations. He considered that this was the very best budget which had been proposed since the days of Sir Robert Peel. He considered that the speech of the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exehequer was a dis play of eloquence which had never been surpassed in the House of Commons, but that speech did not need any praise from him. Let them look at one great fact, that with the vast empire of France, with a population of be tween 40 and 50 millions, the amount of the exports from this country for the last year amounted only to about 41 1 . .).00,000. - He was certain when the great body of the French people tasted the fruits of free trade policy they would be desirous of going on still farther in the same direc tion. When it was complained that France did not give us equal advantages under this treaty, it ought to be re membered this Ives getting in the small end of the wedge, and besides, we should remember how comparatively short a period it was since this country accepted the principles of free trade. He firmly believed that the time was not far distant when they should have a similar treaty with Spain, and with Austria, mid, in fact, he looked upon this treaty as being the inauguration of free trade throughout Europe. (Hear, hear.) The argument of the lion. gentleman (Mr. Du Cane) simply amounted to this, that under the new sys tem the wine would become so bad that they could not drink it, it would become so dear that they could net obtain it, and at the same time it would seriously affect the reve nue at present derived from beer. Now, under this treaty, he (Mr. Baxter) believed that the trade of England would receive a great stimulus. As regarded wine, they found the adulteration of wine was carried on to a frightful extent, and in this matter alone the previsions of the treaty would have a post beneficial effect. Looking at the political as pect:of the question, he would ask, How was it there was so frequently such a war.of words between this country and the United States, and that nevertheless they never came to blows ? Why, it was simply because of the commercial intercourse that existed between the two'countries. — (He ar, hear.)e-Lookine• at the vast empire of Fran ce, ; what results of the most ben eficial kind might they not expect to result to this country in a commercial point of view,. when they had before thenithe example of their commercial relations with the United States? As to the labours of the hon. member for Rochdale (Mr , Cobden), if this treaty should be fully carried out, he (Mr. Baxter) believed that lie would confer by it as great a benefit to this country as he did when ho carried the repeal of the corn laws. LIDDELL thought the adva nta g es of this treaty were net to be measured by common rules. He objected to this motion as an abstract resolution upon finance which depended entirely upon the circumstances of the time and the exigencies of the State. Now, whatthe were the circound um stances of' the time ? The Emperor of French f himself wanting the me ans for many of the most valuable arts of peace. The treaty was an absolute necessity for the supply of those means. France was only beginning to see her way, and the advantages to her would be certain. The question was whether the .. advantages would be equally great to ourselves. He believed in his heart that it would. The extension of trade with a great and powerful neighbour was a most important advantage, and he said confidently that no• man living could anticipate the results. (Hear.) Now, as to the exigencies of the State, it was impossible to hide thd fact that, while on the one hand they were making great sacrifices to France, they were on the other hand re quired to make unprecedented sacrifices in time of peace. (Hear.) He deplored their military expenditure. He thought the existing scheme was one means of lessening in time these enormous estimates. Tho present and any Go vernment in France must obey the impulsive energy of the people of that country, and the more their interests were united to our own the greater would be the chances of peace, and a relief from the burdens of war. An hon. gentleman said that the present alliance between the two countries was a hollow alliance, but did he think it would make it more '(Cheers.) But this was the unkindest cut of all, that the arch high priest of free trade should abjure the worship of his favourite deity, and fall down on his knees before the monstrum horrendum called one-sided reciprocity. (Cheers.) The privilege which the House of Commons had always valued most highly was that of remitting and imposing taxation, but if it passed the treaty in its present shape, it would be cutting off valuable sources of indirect revenue, and fettering in a most arbitrary manner the whole system of taxation for years to come. (Cheers.) No matter how great the financial exigencies of the country might be—no matter how great the political difficulties in which we were involved—once bound by this treaty, our hands would be inextricably tied unless France consented to unloose them. What man could tell what would camr even in six months ? In 1853 the right hon. gentleman hadendeavoured to cast the horoscope of 1860, and signally failed. (Hear, hear.) There was but ono little cloud in the sky, but it was un heeded, and in a short year wo drifted into war on a peace budget. (Hear, hear.) The political and financial horizon was now dark enough, but it was fondly hoped that with a war budget we should drift into the haven of lasting peace. He might be blind, but he felt convinced that he should havo companions in his blindness, when he professed himself unable to discover the objects of this treaty. Was it to enable the Emperor of the French to exhaust our resources of steam coal, and to enable him to supply himself with one of the most important elements of naval warfare ? If tha were the case, the proposal should have his most decided op position. ([leer, hear.) According to the hon. member for Birtninghani, one colliery in the north would suffice for the whole French navy; hut if that wen:. the case, how was it that the price of coal was rising, and that that which was now a luxury for rich and poor promised soon to become an expensive luxury for the rich alone ? (Hear, hear.) If the object of this treaty were free trade, how could the reten tion of the differential duties on foreign shipping in French port/ b 9 for a =lomat defended (Hear.) if it were a fair, ---- - stable by throwing away this treaty? (Hear, hear.) He ' Add to that the £1,400,000 malt credits to be taken in ad was prepared to say that this treaty was the best guaran- vance, and the £2,100,000 tea and sugar duties, it would tee for peace, and for that reason he was prepared in the make a total equal to the deficit of £9,400,000. main to support this budget. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—How will Mr. DODSON said that the income tax would tend you get a surplus ? to produce a spirit of economy on the part of the house Sir S. NORTHCOTE said he did not think that a large and the people. (Hear, hear.) It was said that this surplus was required, and he believed that the natural rate treaty was politically wrong, but commercially right. He of progress in the revenue which had been maintained for was almost inclined to reverse that dictum. The Chancel- the last 10 years would have provided an ample surplus. for of the Exchequer had contended some years ago, in op- Ever since 185:", the income from revenue duties had shown position to Mr. Oliviera, that a reduction to the extent of great elasticity. But what he was anxious to point out to Is. per gallon on wine would produce very little effect on the house was, that if the consumers were to be relieved the consumption. But they must consider the Chancellor to the amount of £4,000,000, the price to be paid for that of the Exchequer in 1860 as replying to the Chancellor of relief wa s not onl y an additional ld. of income tax, but an the Exchequer in 1856, and say whether or not he had the additional 3d., because he had shown that if the object was best of the argument. It was difficult to trace the precise merely to meet the deficit of £9,400,000, a 7d. income tax effect of the wine duties. The reductions effected in 1787 would have been amply sufficient. (Hear, hear.) But if they by Mr. Pitt had the effect, for some years, of largely in- accepted the proposals of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, creasing the consumption. But there were additions made though their revenue might increase in future years, it to these duties in 1795, and in 1803, 1804, and 180 5 , none would do sc4very slowly, and in the meantime the country, of which, however, materially affected the consumption, would have to bear taxation of some kind or other to meet while, at the same time, they brought an increase of reve- the deficiency canoed by the remissions proposed by the nue. It was not till they got to 1813 ; when the duties were budget. He believed that if the deficiency was met by the very high indeed, that they found-both a diminished re- continuance of the income tax, that next year they would venue and a diminished consumption. In 1825 Lord Ripon have not a 10d. but a ls. income tax, and perhaps more. reduced the duties on wine by nearly 50 per cent., When people, therefore, out of doors, and hon. members in and in 1831 the duties on all kinds of wine were equalised. that house, talked of getting the advantages of these re The effect of this was an increased consumption, which, missions for a single penny of income tax, they were quite however, by no means kept pace with the increase of popu- in error. Next year the Government would not lation ; and in 1858, and over an average of six or seven be able to take up £1,400,000 of malt credits.— years preceding, the consumption of wino per head had not they would still have to pay the war taxes en been so great as it was in 1813 and 1814, at the time when tea and sugar, and they would have nothing to the wine duties had been raised to the height of which he replace the absolute loss caused by the total abolitionbf had spoken just now. Social habitshad a greater influence the paper duty. That loss was estimated by:the Chancellor than any change of duty on the extent of consumption. He of the Exchequer at £1,00 0 , 000 for the present year, but should accept the treaty in the hope that great and lasting next year it would be £1,200,000. Looking at the paper good would spring from it. (Hear, hear.) It seemed to duty from 1849 to 1858 he found that it had steadily in him that the budget was not more remarkable for its bold- creased in amount. (Hear, hear.) In the ten years it had mess than for its foresight. It was a plan which would lay increased from £BlO,OOO to £1,142,000, or more than 40 per the foundation of a wealth which would hereafter amply cent. He did not say that that was any reason for not repay us for any sacrifice which we might temporarily taking off the duty, or for maintaining a tax which pressed make for the purpose of carrying it into effect. upon a particular interest, but at the same time, when Mr. DAWSON said the people of Ireland would not be people were talking so glibly about the remission of taxes, satisfied with the financial expectations of this year as and about tiding over the year, it was as well to look for likely to foreshadow the future financial policy of the ward and see in what position they would be placed next country. The income tax was originally imposed only for year. He fully admitted the elasticity of the revenue, but three years, but had now become a permanent one ; and he hew were they to maintain the revenue if they took away believed it would not only be kept on, but increased. As a those great elements, if they totally repealed those pros salve for this evil, which was now declared to be a necessary porous sources of income which were the basis of that elms one, they had given them a treaty with France, by which ticity. He admitted that though the duties on bricks, on we gave them coal and iron, essential for their commercial 'soap, and upon glass had been totally abolished, the re and aggressive purposes, iu order that we might have venue from the Excise had increased from £15,000,000 to cheaper wines for the wealthier classes. Ireland must feel £17,000,000, makingan increase of £2,000,000, but the duty a considerable loss in the admission, free of duty, of eggs on ardent spirits of itself had increased during the same and butter, for she now exported 50,000,000 eggs, and pro- period £332,000, not because of increassd consumption, but duced a far larger quantity of butter than she consumed. because the duties had been raised upon spirits in Ireland Take next linen; a duty of 20 per cent. ad valorein or even and Scotland. Notwithstanding that increase, the people of 25 per cent., the maximum duty after October 1, 1864, had been in circumstances which enabled them to consume would be prohibitory. Even if the duty were reduced to the spirits at the higher rate, but there had been no great 10 per cent. when the French manufacturer could import increase. In 1839 the consumption was 22,962,000 gallons, machinery free, he would have the advantape over us. For and in 1858 the consumption was 23,996,000 gallons. some years the restriction on the exportation of machinery (Hear, hear.) The effect of the financial course upon which was abandoned. The French were the greatest linen con- they were now being solicited to embalk would not lead to sliming people in the world. The blouse was worn by all the production of a greater quantity of malt and hops, or the peasants and the artisan class. The trade had fallen to a greater consumption of them. They would cripple from £1,000,000 to £150,000, owing to - the facilities given themeelves, therefore, in this expectation of a revenue to France to import free machinery, and now by giving from malt, hops, and spirit, while the paper duties would them coals and iron we should make them our competitors already have disappeared altogether. If they carried out in all the markets of the world. Unless the duty were re- that line of policy, then, depending merely upon the elasticity duced to 10 per cent., the linen trade would gain no benefit of the revenue, they would miserably fail in their calcula whatever from the treaty. The people of this country flow. So with respect to wines, the duty arising from ought not to be so severely taxed as was proposed, under which was to recover itself. It was quite* an experiment, this scheme, for the sake of any treaty which would not however, whether those duties would recover themselves or giveu them equal advantages in return. (Hear, hear.) not, and at the best it would be a work of time. There was Mr. CROSSLEY found considerable disparity in the an article in constant use among the lower classes of the views of hon. members, and it was alleged there was no community for example—namely, tea, the reduction of the use in taking the duties oft' wine and paper, for they would duties upon which was begun in 1853, when it was reduced get them no cheaper. With respect to the system of from 2s. ld. to ls. sd. per lb. That was a great reduction ) libenses, he thought the right hon. gentleman must alter and the result was a greatly increased consumption. it, because he could assure him the extension of beer-shops But had the reduction brought the revenue from the tea in the country had produced great evil. He quite agreed duties up to what it was before the reduction took place ? with him that in taking off a portion of the wine duties he At that time the revenue'from tea amounted to £5,984,000, must extend the places for sale, but if he did so, the parties but now it was under £5,500,000. Hon. gentlemen told ouglt to be place' under the sup3rvision of the magic- them the right hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer was trates and the cognisance of the police. It would be a great only treading in the steps of Sir R. Peel, and asked them to injustice to the licensed victuallers, who had a large pro- look at the result. But the circumstances were very dif perty embarked in trade, to allow parties to obtain licences ferent. In 1842, when Sir R. Peel began his reforms, the at the option of paying a certain sum of money. He hoped system of indirect taxation had reached its limit, and Sir the right hon. gentleman would take care that no such in- R. Peel, therefore, said that more revenue must thence justice was perpetrated, and as regarded the budget gene- forth be derived from direct taxation. In doing so he broke rally, it had his cordial concurrence. virgin soil, giving the people raw materials in abundance, Mr. P. HENNESSY, as an Irish member, thought th e an d th e necessar i es o f lif e a t a c h ea p en ed r ate, covering the budget of the right hon. gentleman the Chancellori of the - revenue by an income tax, for which he had appealed to the Exchequer one of the very worst ever presented t• Parlia- better classes of society, to enable him to set free the trade ment. He referred to a number of articles where all the of the country. Sir R. Peel succeeded, but the right hon. gain under the proposed system would be £580,000 to the gentleman had not the virgin soil to breakup. Undoubtedly English, and loss than £ 2 , 800 to Ireland. In 1840 , the there was some to work upon, but not much more, - and population of Ireland was something over 8,000,000, and whereas Sir It. Peel put on an income tax for three year*, the population now was something over 7,000,000 ; but in the right hon. gentleman put it only for one 1840 the larger population consumed somewhere about year, which would not cover his expenditure. 4,000,0001b5. weight of tea, while now the smaller popula- The advantages to be derived from this treaty lation consumed 10,000,0001b5. of that article, so that the could not be deemed equal to those of free cotton, larger population, as he said, consumed less than the cheap food and relief from many oppressive Excise smaller, and whilst last year the duty paid on tea amounted and Customs duties. He thought, therefore, they would altogether to £4,700,000, the duty in Ireland alone probably find themselves mistaken in the amount of good amounted to £700,000. He should confine his remarks to which they contemplated from this treaty, but still that those few facts, and looking 'at them seriously, he believed consideration was perfectly insignificant in comparison they justified him in giving his vote against the budget. with another grave objection to which the project was Mr. GRANT DUFF said, with regard to the wine open. This system of direct taxation had now got into duties, it had been said that it was impossible that the such a state that it was absolutely necessary to reconsider British palate could ever reconcile itself to the French it, if they wished it to be any longer tolerated ; yet the right wines. In refutation of this he would only refer to the case hon. gentleman was throwing away the opportunity of doing of Scotland. It was perfectly notorious that up to a very what must inevitably be done next year. At the present recent period French wines were very largely consumed in time it was impossible to defend that tax as now levied. In Scotland, and hon. members would remember the adage— 1860 it was somehow or, other to cease, and after the ems.- ", Firm and erect the Caledonian stood, tions which had be en made to enable the house to keep its Prime was his mutton and his claret good : word in this matter, they had a fair right to expect that ' Let him drink port,' the English statesman cried i some effective step would be taken for that purpose. Next He drank the poison and his spirit died?' year there would he an enormous deficit, and whatever might (Hear, hear.) And a countrymen of his own, Sir R. Gor- have been the faults of other Governments her Majesty's don, in his travels, related that he found French - wine present Government at leasthearflieseredit of having pro in Morayshire actually cheaper than he had found it in posed the highest estimates. Under the exciting oratory of Normandy. With regard to the paper duty, there seemed the hon. memberfor Birmingham, and in a reformed Parlia to be a general consent in the policy of not keeping it up ment, they would find themselves obliged to have recourse an hour longer; and whilst a great deal was said about to some new mode of taxation. Direct taxation was by no the height to which the education vote was rising, means in favour, and no member of that house had spoken he must observe that there was no education like that in stronger language against the income-tax than the hon. which a man gave himself by reading when once the member for Birmin g ham. B y depriving themselves of rudiments of education had been acquired. Cheap bo o ks were Customs and Excise duties t heK would really be burning a most important element of education ; and if this educa - their shi p s. They would next e told that they must put a tion were not exclusively spread among the working classes, tax upon realised property, or else reduce their establish an extension of the franchise would be a curse instead of a ments. Either of those alternatives would please the hon. blessing. (Hear, hear, from the Opposition benches.) The member for Birmingham, and indeed, if the budget had proposed simplification of the tariff would, he thought, have been prepared by him, he (Sir S. Northcote) should have re - )an advantage both ways. It would not only have a general sisted it as a dangerous measure, but it would not have cur effect, but, by cheapening a number of foreign articles , it p rised him. He was surprised, however, and greatly our ront would cause new branches of invention and 'industry to prised, that such a proposition should have proceeded f spring up. (Cheers.) Besides which, the obnoxious searches her Majesty's Government. They were told, too, that this at the Custom-house, which all had experienced with so was not all—that a commission was new sitting whichwonld much annoyance, would be done away with. It might be probably recommend an expenditure of £10,000,000 or said that these alrerationa would affect only the upper and £2o,ooo,ooo—for in this* days a few millions more or less middle classes, but it was these classes after all which con• were of no great consequence—for national defences. If tributed most to the revenue, and it mustbe always remem- that were so, it was clear that the present resources of the bored with satisfaction that we had no passports and no Government would be insufficient, and in that case he quarantine. should hope that the plan of the hon. member for Bir- Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE said he fully appre- mingham, of making a tax of Bs. in the £lOO on realised ciated the great merits which were contained in the scheme property would not be seriously entertained. By such which was at present under the consideration of the house. a scheme as was now proposed, however, they ran the When the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Ex- risk of a tremendous diminution of the establishments of the chequer sat down, an hon. gentleman rose in his place and nation, or else of the imposition of a tax on the holders of said he had never listened to a speech in which there was property, from which th e mann f a cturers and otherprodueers more tinsel. (Laughter.) He (Sir S. Northcote) was fully would be exempt. The Economist—a paper for which he prepared to admit that there was a great deal of real ster- had a great respect—admitted that the proposal had advan tages to offer, e i r t , w tto n u t g o h nt th e e f y it w s ewreaytotobteananttta,innnedjusattlya as g gre h a e t ling gold in the proposals of the right hon. gentleman; but then he could not help remembering an old proverb, which P rice ; but told:them that gold might be bought too dearly. (Hear.) They thought, the right hon. gentleman the member for Buck must consider whether on the whole the benefits offered to inghamshire with too great a disposition to tide over diffi them were worth the price which they were called upon culties. Surely the right hon. gentleman (the Chancellor to pity for them. There was one consideration which im- of the Exchequer) himself was equally liable to such a re mediately suggested itself, and would occur to the minds proach, and he had rather disingenuously declared that he of hon. members, namely, the great benefits which they had so far yielded to the suggestion of the Opposition. were told would be derived from the simplification of the While appreciating some of the advantages which were of tariff. Much discussion had taken place on the policy of fered to them, therefore, he could not but believe that it such a course, and the right hon. gentleman the present would lead them into a dilemma so serious as there was no Chancellor of the Exchequer said in that discussion that it pehatiebthheye revious example of within the memory of any of them. was desirable to get rid of those infinitesimal duties, and (Cheers from the Opposition.) that when they came to balance the gains against thee t.dta 3 c l x l h o bring eßefTtOhNe income Exchequerstaaixd until he was hpparde g or mplaaordrradta arranged d r right hon. t b . the losses, they would find the advantage in favour of this forwardi\l Chancellor r.A th - F they had cm country. He did not now wish toexpress any opinion on their consideration. complicated m at e t e r s w H w one or the other side of that question, as it had yet to come were to do with the various fr under their consideration in the course of the discussion had placed beforehoped and next which would take place on the treaty. But ho wished to say the income-tax dwceulnsdimdbereocowmheata a word in reference to that important part of the subject, the year they the income-tax in co en n :7; * the, debate. treaty with France, for it had been arranged that the treaty and the budget should be considered together. A great deal should i‘ ir . i b i e u a bear B o A t the D othermevteadx thea taxation n a d ol e u t the Lord PALMERSTON expressed a hope that the house had been said on both sides of the house, but more particu would come to a decision on Thursday night. TheT n e motion Consolidated umotTi waysoin otha t N t h oe Fund t n Fh i a s g agreed ti l e 4lT d ogE7 t o, o A6i . n4B9to)i, larly On the other side, that this treaty was contrary to the read coE ßi m ll pin w iti as otteeEt T a y third iorinciplss of free ti axle. That observation had been made jestingly, perhaps, on that side of the house, but he con time and passed. fessed that when this matter first presented itself to his mind, he was not disposed to think there was anything con (IRELAND) BILL. VALUATION OF moved as an amendment that this IN , O i n r l . trary to the principles of free trade iu it. Ho had . alwey t s been brought up in the opinion that treaties of reciprocity house should go into committee that day six months. by not very much in favour of the principles maintained mintltere. , L w A h r i N eh G .w s a u s p a p gr or e te ed d t th o. o motion for going into . cola ribygethi,eenfrsieye th tr e a d d e e et s r c in h e o s ol w ; h b ie u h t maviigthhtouhtavceakbrrey ing a o in u t t a v in e e ry d After a short discussion, the bill passed through com a measure by no means to be condemned o e o n t i h t e a u t t h in g at re t u h n is d s . va i e f mittee. hon with members regar w d The house adjourned at a quarter to one o'clock. n , a v t a u s r l e .n o t f h t i h s e tr a tprovi siony made it that appear thing in the treaty at first sight which ou to ld th co e n d s u id ti e e r s w o h n at wi ii r e they would see it was a very loose prsion. There was no The other countries ; but if those imposed upon the wines the duties imposed upon French wines were lighter than hon. members would c onsider they would see that there was diff ere nce. The duties prop osed by the treaty a considerable • to be imposed on th e im p ortation of French wines were, upon wines o f 15 degrees of p roof s p irits, ls. p er gallon; upon wines from 15 to 25 degrees, Is. 6d. per g allon ; and 26 to 40 degrees, 2s. per u p on wines containing from gal lon, that was to say , ei g hteen p ence as against one shilli ng , upon wine which contained a higher degree of spirit. The effect of the treaty would be that the wines of France would be imported into this country at ls. a gallon, and the wines of Portugal at Is. 6d. a gallon. That was a very questionable policy, and it was certainly not in accordance with the principles of free trade. If they went to Spain and Portugal, what inducement could they offer those countries to import their wines? They would say, " You have so arranged your duties that the wines of France shall come into England at a lower price than ours, and you must rearrange your duties so as to allow us to en t er your mar k e t ou the same terms. But this country would not be able to do that, because it is bound by the terms of the treaty for 10 years to maintain the differential duty. It might be said that it was unreasonable on their part to condemn the treaty, but surely when there were matters like these so very doubtful, it was their duty to closely examine what would be the real effect of the treaty upon the general interests of this country. His great objection, apart from the =aside ration of the details of the treaty, was, that it tied up the hands of the Government for 10 years. (Hear.) He was quite willing to admit that he saw many advantages to be derived fram the treaty. (Hear.) He believed that, though it would not give them all they had a right to expect, and though it contained conditions which might be embarrass ing to the Government, yet, at the same time, he quite ad mitted it made a breach in the prohibitive and protective system of France. (Hear.) His objection was not to the advantages, but to the price that was to be paid for them. The hon. member for Montrose had that night paid a high tribute to the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which, he said, was characterised by its simple eloquence. It was eloquence, no doubt, but as to its being "simple eloquence," he could hardly admit that. (Hear.) But sub sequently the hon. member for Montrose had illustrated his meaning of the term " simple eloquence" by telling them that all the great advantages that were to be derived from this budget would be obtained by only an additional penny to the income tax for one year. Well, the Chancellor of the Exche • quer told them that he had a deficit of £9,490,000 to make up, and he sketched various modes by which that might be done before coming to the plan which he proposed for the acceptance of the house. What was the plan ? He ex pected £8,472,000 as the result of collecting three-quarters income tax within the present financial year. Ile pro posed' to take up in advance £1,400,000 or malt duties, and to receive from the continuance of the war duties on tea and sugar £2,100,000. But he (Sir S. Northcote) contended that if they did that, apart] from uncalled-for reductions, they would not require a 10d. but a 7d. income tax. If they were to collect 7-10ths of that income tax within the year, 7-10ths of a 7d, income tax would give them £5,900,000. THE TREATY OF COMMERCE. The Conservatives who voted with the Government - on Mr. Disraeli's motion were Alderman Copeland, Mr. J. M. Gaskell, Mr. P. S. Humberston, Mr. A. E. Lockhart, Mr. T. Mainwaring, Mr. D. 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