The Sun. — London, England, 1816-02-02 00:00:00

~: A , pledge v.1,..L1t the House tOtsilLreartOnanly Tiont, desire on the subject in 'question.- gave the. One at learnt thefitilaW 70 treaties and cOnventions, strollgest declaration from the Crown to tnkc all of Which the Chancellor at - the,Esehetrier, t ‘spOke, possible measures-for producing "gent economy be:found:to have stipukted Yoe ,tore •tot:11 In the sl a te that were , consistent with the sitta.. • -AhOlitiou of the Slate Trade.. :As ot:se . tion . of the' country ; and this was a point whiCh 'Sequence of the glorious contest in Ministers and the House would never ceaSe'ta!; '* . isad been engaged, as one item in the pa'os keep in v i ew . if it were possible to rev,ert to 'perky of the country, the property tax . was to ire the state .of: trade end commerce at the' corn- 7 eoutintted. This most oppressive tax not api3oo%-, tpr" Incitement of the contest, and on the other hand, - 'pertr, but upon income—this burden_ upon the to show the glories- and triumphs and honoots "riffakiStry and the tesources of the' country, so, se- . with which we had now-come out of it, he was surd'• Adefilly felt and so loudly complained of, was to thete was not a British henrt which would lesitste' be eimtinued, as one of the consequences of . our at preferring o n r present situation. As Set many boasted victories, one of the sympromsof our Na- OppertiMities would soon occur for the House': tionni prosperity. The LionourabJe Clentlemiut maturely 'to consider what eould he done to trusted that •the declaration made by the Chatieer-; prove the state of the country, he s e„, t ia .touch lor of the riselsegiter wids! not be Idea upon the but sli g htly o n a ny thi ng relating to that topic. .country ; that it would he remarked by all classes ; It - must be e vid ent , th a t several circumstances that it would be attended by the cowithentS ,0* tontributed to produce this stagnation, which such Metnbers - of the House as had constituents.' could not possibly be avoided. For example , With regard t o. the other topics alluded. to in the a very considerable difference arose in all corn- Address, he would reserve himself for a florae op irercial transactions, as soon as the general portitnity. TIN distresses of the country h>ta intercourse tens renetveil • with the Continent, been confessed by the Hon. Mover, mid i.e trusted 'which had been interrupted by the war ; _this I that•the House would not' !coil deaf ear to coin 'caused a reduction in the prices nt all articles si- 1 plaints so loud and so general. Lie hoped: the Right toiler to those which were allowed to be import- lion. Gent. (the Chancellor of the &idoliser) td, and particularly in those which formed the ne- Would find out some mode of relief. He had alluded tessaties of hie. On looking hack to the year to it !eduction of the public hurt hens at present ill ISO!, it would be recollected that apprehensions i contempletion. (The Chancellor_.ol -the E.:cc:he st/ere entertained of a great deficiency in the sup- . fitter said " No," across the table). Theo, etel. ply of bread-corn, the produce of our own courts tinned Mr. Bethlehem, I am .mistalteo, amt .the try ; and these alarMs at an approlciting scarcity, country will he di-appointed.—Were Alone of, the were continued for several years following : tbsis j public burthens to he reduced I were none of the the prices of corn and every necessary of life rose i taxes to be abolished ? was our overgrown expen rapidly and Continued at a high rate ; but when, diture not to he narrowed? Was . the War In:arta% by the restoration at peace; channels of coot- not to he taken off, - which was felt so oppressive by ,nterec were re-opened, the prices necessarily the people ;or were we still tit bear, ti - tiring pence, ,round .their level, and wheat, in particular, was all the overwhelming imposts of it war. establish. • reduced to the price it formerly bore. An- i 'neut.? Besides questions of this kind, which must other cause was, the scarcity of money, oc- soon be pressed upon the Mese,' Litre were other easioneir by the cootinental wars, now so glo- 6UbjeetS that Called loudly for its attention.. There riously concluded. Very large sums 'had been - were laws that oppressed all chtss.;s of the commit ileawit front capital of this country by the 'lily,' which most be eX H tilt C d un el rCP VIA ( He great loans of the last and the preceding year. In alluded particularly to enactments which prevented' the last three years'the immense sum of 142 mil s . the exportation by the most important class of the lions had' been grunt!' for the expenses of 'the comm.) , of - their staple comniodities, .and 'to the war in Portugal, Bte.; of which about 42 millions state of the usury leas. Another sehjeet , still only were in paper. The abstraction of so largo a more important, would require consideration—the sum from the ordinary channels of industry of the state of the pour ,IaWS. He did not Wish to de country [mist necessarily have produced a great tai[ the House longer . at present, and made some Butt. When the Papers that were pre- tqu.4oi,;ies for obtruding himself upon its attention NI leg on this subject should be laid before the ~ so, lohg. -There was ossepert of the flow. Mover's House, the wlo;le untidier would be clearly seen Spec , which ti Is• • .1 it en re ) cnnew r‘t that purl into ; and all that was requisite would be tot Gets- ill %%16.01 he alluded to the necessity of economy. m tleen not to consider them in the gross, hut sera- ; When the country Was . 3o burdeuen; 'as it conie,s_ paimisly to examine all the' items, Had, after en , ,hilly was at present,' the lowest farthing given to attenti% e invest igat ion, to fortis their opinion as to !. all public functionaries; from the Prince down to what pirts of the public expenditures can be pen- ; the oeituttni sol d lier, should be calculated. • peaty dispensed with, as well as how those went& NfterdrN that: the time would soon ore to be met which - come when ate examination of 'the 'public eXpendi tare of country. flu ansil er 4) the question of tuts: would • tie ticeo , ssary. •TO give greater faci the N..ble Lot:di opposite, he had no hesitation to hilt. to tht examinations, different COmmitteede avow the intentiou of Ministers to c ont.titte shoat(' be formed, which wight sit at t h e same Income Tax, on the modified stale of 5 pet cent. the. Although he agreed that it was desirable (Loud crie. of 'hear, hear, hear . front all Parts of . . that this most important business .of the country, the nou,,e.). He should he able, at the proper, • should be almost immediately taken * into consi rinse, to stew, that of all modes that could be "I Aeration, he bad' an • objection to' the amend-'' thought of, none would be equelly•advaistegeous ment of the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Brand), aunt economical, or less oppressive and .bortileu- that it held out a 'pledge . to`the country winch , some tt) the .community at large:. tie was [Marc Ott-House Writilit'probably be tinalite to redern, he sh o uld he told, that he could bort ow a large No pledge of this kind should ever he . given.— stun at money, to supersede the necessity 01' this Mitch: Had been Said of the poke ; but its charac- Tax ; but he should have ,no ditficuity in proving .ter,collll only be determined tip it, a consideration " shit! this ti[[[de would he tomtit notch more incon- tit th e toms on which it was establiihed.and these As.ri;. , iit and borthensome to °births the necessary terms cupid only be learned 'from the Treaties. zupioy, bat there would, as he hall ulrendy ob- 'rhe Peuee of Utrecht 'had always been considered set veil, so many occasions for "discussing • this -us disgraceful to this etinntrv. tohject, that.he should abstain from any farther Mr. PuesTots complainetiof the great expendli rentarks at,. present, un>l nal§ declare, that ih !! , t wee - of the conary, and the heavy taxes under whip!' it laboured; and drew a picture of the dis whole of the Address had his most unqualified ap 'robin bin'. • •i tt'essing Situation in which' tht. commercial 'nod , 13.1doo,ottast,-. in risin g to support the agricultural interests were at the nresent nonneut amendment, concurred in all that hail been said. l placed. • of the tau . dabli — ioni of moderation that distill. 4. Rommel,' said, that the speech of . .his • !wished the Addre4s. Diu he could not avoid tak- Right lion. Friend, the ( hanCellor of the Excite mu; the earliest opportunity of correcting an error elder, would not allo , v him to remain. in silence, • of the Right Hole Gentleman, who &Up:posed that lest he should,- by s . o'diiing, be supposed to agree his Eon. Friends, in approving of thi Address, in the sentiments of the Addr ess. In several' of baitgiven - their approbation of the principles by i these senti m ents he 'entirely concurred, but there Willie!! the . niemitores of h,(l be en di- 'were ii; hers ttl which would never give his'assent. rkted. 'They agreed to tin: Address, siaiplv Ile agreed with the Hon. !Lim in that part of his tilecanse it pledged them to nothing. It left speech. which referred to the distresses of the coun 'open. every question relative to the conouct try he likewhte most cordially participated, as all of Govcrihnott 'since the laic Session of Parlia. , ides of the House seemed• to do, in that part of it hielit. ()lie part, indeed, of it reqUiredi further ex- which so feelingly 'alluded to the situation otitis plituat on-•--he alluded to the passap in Which the \Nest y. Ile rejoiced in the peace, but be could Ifoorishine conditi niif the s i t - conmeree, ma- not love the menner in which it was brought iiiffitetaes, and revenue of the country„ had' been ' ab'out,. or the - events that preceded it, his •.lottisa mentioutd. The Right Hiro..Gentleinati, ` l ion htielf approbsition. It would appear' strange it ever, had admit ted in his, sire - 0i thet there did the House should approve of the Manlier exist presstire and CinharraOmetit among consider- widely the AdministratiOn hied acted, consider... to e c l assys of the people. The Istided 'West ing that it approved of their pro:6stous dud 'certainly coitiorliend u Very' 'considershle , were completely at variance with their 'conduct.' class, mot their difficulties remitted unpalliutett They had, when they lest appeared before h'y victory, and unrelieved by . pace. Of the . Ment, and when the War with . Boonaparte Was in state of tide revenue 'Ministers alone had any In- progress, disavowed distinetly,esplieoly, ;Old with formation, and therefore, emdd alone joilges.. , the' gretoest solemnity, those pri.leiples Which Their assertions on that siihjeet must at' pre-. 'stibierptently regulated their conduct. Tliey pro- • sent be t,kken for gran'ed. 13ut they would ite.,„ ttsted against all interference With the fait tool f, Our pottins such affaira of Prance—against ' temPi" to lilt- env a grave 'responsibility, i expressions in their nesster'smontli,, id should be pose upoo that ;imam either a Government or found that agriculture Must be excepted front this a fluter, in opposition to its own wislieu Or choice, • flottrishing 'condition," anti that it stood in This trolley, so just and moderate, they had need of rebel that the nomber of bankruptcies Wurds relinqttished as eirentliSt4nee. Changcl. ,l Wit% Wet easing, and that the home trade, no' ' British GOvernmenthatt ePeewards tint o, k ly 'less that, the foreign, presented'onothermelan- employed a Pritish army to place the Bourbons 'chilly exception to the boasted " flourishing corn- on the Throne, but now. employs One to keep' slitiots " • described :by the Address. - He might them there. Uiil tisk happen becanse the Allies . tartly venture to say, that the homettatle, the then felt themselves, Ode ,to enforce principles - substantial ground-work or natiOrial-industry; trots diametrically-opposite ttl 'those they bed pro 'it it stand still. Shdipi w - ere every where empty, •fessed so,, where was the_ faith of the and tradeemen's hooks Covered with d e hts,':of • FrenC i ltzipeople ? lky . had broken • their en..., - aviiich not one per cent: could he collected. All • gael,einellts,--they had renotteeed their prores. it-he conquerors and negociators at .Paris had not •siuns. -Int.!ad of corectirrihg its the praise been abl e to save the country from a state of 'Ministers for their conduct. in hr caging about -' enth, Orl • assf a ca tthat ex ceeded the difficulties Of thei peace, they deserved, the 181_2 t+tiil 1313. Ile lipped t h at coptcnipt ibi e sgv e r ot censure, fit having .comproinised the honopr of the country. Neither slid he. imagine TY/uut, Ferdinand, who had . bettered so that' the Pcdtee would be more secure than it Was' losmiody to- his 'hest friends ; who had treated so ungratefully those it ho eeised him to a throne hoootirtehle. it was hot founded on the base Of . srbien disgracCil, whine slightest .offence the reciprocal good - wil l ,' but ,ore that of arbitrary Blegitia nne - usinl i n t ion of his -father's sceptre, power- 7 4 must conlphlbien. I_it • tttatkini., it, use: would be inevented Irons extending the effects of t;;olplitut.vd the seeds.Of war, atill no V l e i•e th e its rcigti into Africa. Fusco out ' e onnexlott With stih es or 0 5c 0,4. , that g ie ,vt siAve-denier out a f;tirope:, and maker , Lordpfyr,t t at,Matin "opt 'wish to protract _ot slates ithin it, aright be supposed, to have ditotissioit whiCia had beet) introduced an pies Wbi9b had not,exeeeted,woold c o me under smite illthuc tice over. hit[. Poillig ld 14 - 411! Cie " i nd f ruw . u4 446 i, t00 " w bl a b entitled 1.1,6 to SO.111, ; e; he. dionitdeLldioti 41,0,14.4 . e to the pretreat de- t k%ejir In eelliug Parliarnent 111;J:ether, he e'atisidereti . Ifr liave been t xplaincd t~en by those %%do, bad Made , Citer t.othein:assentitietl,belore a charge agitibst l.niererit, and it - woaltl therefore be tin riecess for !that to dwell upon this ; and he, shoti i id .'-yotr si:tet v. hat had fallen fruit! Gentlemen on tat efirlety • oi liebjects, iioeteled het to open to the Go'vern otent thosestepies on which a difference ef'opiiiien might lie - expeeted. kle Apprehended what had been oid,penceetled horn an anxious wish that Ministers 'should eonfiue•themselves to that lice of policy„ivirictr' at a former period they had, held to 'he o'r es eribeil to them by ditty, end it would be his task, when that great quest ion eis'tne before them, whi'eh :memo shortly he subedited to their delibe- - ration, to - satisfy the. Honer : that in nO ins . tttnie bed that conduct been departed froth—thee line. of conduct whielt they hail fOrMerly. 'Wien; null wit telt, Re it had been adopted on the broadest and sohndest 'principles, Would he that to which they should adhere for. the future. He Wag not dis;• posed to infer that unanimity Wes to he eXpected, born the feeling .Which had been manifested in this , nighee deleste. He shoeld expect to find im- + mense varieties of opinion On the great tinest bins Which t . vriolil soon come 'under discossioe; 00 the present state tit %Europe, The rourse ruestied by Itlittioere wirh respect to other Powers he should defend, • because he thought it litttl been wisely tle - - termined upon ; hot et thi same time he did not deny the right which the Howe lied to tletermiue on it as they in their wisdom Should see fit setup n tt came under the exemlnatino of l'erllatnent, Qa all the I,aspoctant qutetion's which %% ere to be in- 1 • Ar vestigeted, he should expect much difference of oriOion teould he foUnd, and be Should not'preinate . ' to arraign ; there was only . one point tin which lie wished Gentlemen opposite to touch w i th a d e . licete hand—nemely, the proceedings of . ether and foreign Governments. These • he hoped, wOeld be more tenderly dealt With than !they had .' been, alt bough the - system acted ',poll should tome be such mei to Obtain their apprOleu ion. He hoped those ettacks.would not continue to be made upon toreige eihnieistratione; which lei'd of laie become so freqeeut. Such opposition might be properly directed egehistilme Mieistets of this cone try, who were present, and able to defend themselves, bet he trusted Gentlemen ' would feel the propriety of notturnieg their arms a e .enint 'those-of other nittiot; \vitt) Whom We-ife r e in alliance—(Hear, hear, h eal: !), salt that se ra . tinizing criticism would not be treesferredto the investigation - of the Intermit policy of foreign CUtilltrie4, which could °toy be properly exercis- , ed at home. Though he expected greet: differ ences Ott all the foreign questions, he. still denied the accuracy of the assertion that had been made, that the Address now under consideration was en titled to support, because it pledged the House to nothing, Thenterits,of the Peace under existing circioustances'wonld be subject to the mottle:o4ln of the House on a, future day. He admitted it would then he. for them to consider whether n OW Peace, or one more edvantageoes . 1 or this country, and for Etirope ih general, miOtjtiii have been made alter time successes, which had crowned the army of - Faigland, in conjunction' 'with her Alliti.• These were points that would be open for disenssinn, and, for these Ministers stood responsible in their characters and in their situa tions ; but still it would he seen, that agreeing to the: tlttsetn.Address, the Liouse ecetded to the proposition, that there never load , been a Peace, conclieled tor t his or perhaps for any other countrY, an advantageous, so glorious•in NH respects, and so completely accomplishing the molt sanguine. expectations of the country, (Hear, bent, hear !), He Was not surprised at the gloomy nppreben e sions expressed by some of the Gentlemen who had spoken on the othersidet remembering as. he did wino were their feelings while we were engaged in the proseetoien of 'the tear, it was not to be expected t h at these would be at once removed by the return .of pence, Some cliff.' culties, were to be auticipated, for he: should b e 'glad to know where a pe a ce had been 'made in any part of the world, which bad left .all tha . crnomn- - nlty for whom it .Was made, without one sorrow, ,vice, or grievance for. COmplaint, He, however, should be glad to have this peace compared :with any of those aehich had been pressed on the atten tion of Parlientent (habit - gibe war; by their op ponentsi'usAnodels for that .which it. would be desirable"o gun, and he would, ask, if among these any one 'could be found . at till to be cam pared to the present ? 'The 'attention 'of 'Parlia-• meat mutt itexessarily he soon directed to the,in ternal eiteatiou of . - the eohntry. lie wisted the 'question to be faitly looked at. They ()tight uot to - turn aside either friiin the view of the genet al policy orAltet of the internal state of the . coontry; and with respect to time letter, there was eertet illy much to he oonsitlered ; but, he wished to know' 'that prime &odd have been .inade which would not hat e•lelt Marl' for consideration, how best to coo. duct _the• country, Iron; fear. sitoat ion to a state so immensely different, as, that was to which we were 110 W coneng,' front that - which. we have so !Ong known—front prospetonte.'wer (for even in the war the mark:;- nt prosperity failed not to tuttuilest themselves, 'unit,. continue to accumolote in every year), to prat:lloa peeee. There we's no matt tonic, suppose; at theelosi Of such a War, thet'some inalicatious'of '. eidamity would not result (rout the changestoesetpteut out the . lransition of the indus try at the'country front tlie war market to the' peace market. lief, lookieg . at this, ,he desired. that an 'exoggertited view-might not be taken Of the evils to be surmounted. ,it wactit.that the conntry should look them in the face ;--to meet . them with mitekess-, 'it was necessary that they shoeld knew . the extent of the difficulties with 'which thethad to Contend ; hot it was ili)t-from taking an exaggerated view of them that Pattie latent tvoithi 'be enabled to supple the proper re-. niedy. While be ailinitted the digicoltior referred to existed to a •ecrtiiti degree-,-•he felt ‘be might even now eni4retelate the country on the viola lioll in %Wel( it was'foutel at time close of such a rt'aiteiU---i t Sit ulttibt)vely'differou,aiidAratifyingly different , - front that'-in Which it truth been lett .at the, termination of every fonner war.. if they Ranked back to the end of the American war, should they find that it .was possible for the Cheneellete 'Of -the Exchequer of that day, viti!fc seeititme ler topics "Of consolatiOn, -to, 10 0"k' of the 416000011 g :irate of the . industry, there not a general failure in each--a tiepression In :Ili of them', urk.iing out of the fiaerifiees caused by the war, and ivii , ; , ittillinit' deCay in (he pros perity of ; . :11 clAlBcs to etc lamented which now only re"sed'hpiiii'Vhe c e4liiriciikortil inttrest of this" country, at:li . he ti'listeti , it would lie siteurn On a. future .10'y t.d.:4 the', riutrjet came onzier the'con» sideration ed, Oil!. I itinse,J proceeded from tertipo-,- , rail causes; . ;, 1 liaillbeen stale.d. in. the Address 'that the nthe.tif,letiretiz-, etromnerce, and. revenue, Were in it fl•Uitisliing state. Tn , these " the arts" had been 'it'difed ii 4 the Learned Gent lentil o (Arr. Broughani): . 11 tt thilse were -not mentimned itt the Aditre , ,i, ii:ad, he resumed, had ouly been in troduced torthc purpose of amplification. The aircanistaoces of the etuuttry suarranted the asser tion referred t o: lie wished deft to enter into dc tails' at presclit ; all be wished w.:s; that the court iey •(.4111,tdd 100; with a 'steady manly resolution at 'the difficulties with whielt they had yet to con tend, us the had done by those they' had to. struggte with duritrg Me war. Doing this, they, - would . lifive - 31iniSterS tr.tly - to' go. hood itt hand with them.; 6(ed not toleolort to those false expe- dients which Ithd fortnrrly been suggeSted, and de- .. termined to persevere in thote solid and jirdound ' treasures, which, founded it sontid principles; bad i fnally broeght the war toe suctessfel termini'. tion. Though not dispOsed to go into details on this orcaion, he thought I' might be well that lie, should il.?;cribe the present state of the revenue, end by comparing tits aniouot of .I.iiitith goods exported in the three quarters of a '4.. , ar, ending . Oct .10, 1814, with those'Of the 3.quarters,entling: at the saute pernii in tlie,oillowit% yea') it woi:l4 be seen the pailrAge in the Speech,'which bed urea so' much eoimirehied n , was luolie ont by 'facts. The ilriti,li m mittact ores exported in the three-, quarters of a year, ending Oct. 10, 1814, amount- cil to 37,100,0001. Those - expo, ted its the iiireo (platter:, ending October . iO, 1815, 84161mo:if to 42,400,0001. T)tli vies life ummoit of their offi cial 'value, umi tireir real value was iittie less ; ' and front this comparison it would be seen - that . the increase which had halter place 'amounted to 5,300,000/.. This stldition to our external. com- merce he considered 'of the greatest importance. The internal state of the - 'country was such. that, deducting.- the ' amount of the 'Property Tax (whicirseavnently the same as in the pre.. ceding- year), the tares on the.hame "consumption, down to Jat). 5 181 G . , • not withstanding a filling off to the aniount of 4 'or 500,0001, in the Costoins. the increase in the! revenue npoir: the wholes aninunted to a'aiillitm and a lolf,---if there Was a falling tat in the Custion, , ,• lie had - the satisfaction to sate, the're wits alit ()illy no falling.off in the l'ixcise, but the . excess under this head covered. 'the decrease Which had occurred under time for 'mer. 'The' Wer,Taxe4 had kept steady ; they did. not vary nitire - tlin 200 : 000/. from. what they.: were last year. There then was a vast increase of the external commerce of the country;- the Excise einirmonsly increased, •ftnd the revenue . generally in a flourishing state, which prove., the 'conimttnity generally poi . sessed, in as great ts.. . , Acgree as tumidly, the means of indulging thoie tastes and dispositions which caosed that consumption ' from which this revenue arose.-.. Though he did not undervalue the depression,com.• plained of by the Agricultural interest, lie was not discouraged. at., it, as he trusted it . would prove temporary. if the Agricultural interest had steedi.. ly provered for a considerable number of year, [as it Was'Wdl kilOWll it had) while other classes. of the 'community suffered severely, it was not a., matter of surprise that it ahould at length encoun. , ii ter misfortune, and it might not to occasion de. spondeuey, though a remedy, if practicable ought • to be supplied. If Parliament met the difficulties of the . country fairly, end joined to 4 'Main the, credit of the conntry, this would he likely lei atinrit the agriculturist the most effectual relief. `.,iiis Right Hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Ex-. chequer,'had . announced his, intention lo propose ; the continuation of the Property Tax at five per cent. Ile (Lord Castlereagh) should much re*- joiee if the circumstances of the country were such that .this. Tax could be ultogether takcis 011. ' but Ibis cOidd .. not, it Appeared to Mini sters, be wisely , done. That propol.ition ! , however, which Iris Right Honourable Privott mekiit' to submit to the [louse, on this subject, which was brought forward•iii! the belief alit it would proveolgreet iMportance, and even a relief . to the country.: t•_ would be for the house to de - Tide upon 'asi hay skonlii think proper hereafter. While the Hon. tientleman opposite objected tp tit* 'Property Tax being continued at all, he hoped b would ant: mler4altie the reduction in its amount. which was ctiatetaplated. Last year, it wits asked, by the Chancellor of the Exchetpter,., to wind up the expellees of the late war. It %vie however given tip, and his Right !lon. Friend had been con.. strained to have recourse to a mint painful opera- . lion of finance, not to carryon the war, •hut to pro. 'vide for the peace•establishment.which was to be, kept upend which could not be dispensed with, hut at the risk of subverting all the greatness, all the . security, and he would add, even all.the prospe., thy, of the country, itt all its branches. The Ho nourable Gentleman had said, the Chancellor of the Exchequer intended to propose that this Tik;C: • Shooll be permanent. He denied that he had ad» vanced any thing to justify' 'lke assumption 'but such was his drsign. Though for the credit, amt. is hue had already said, even for the relief of the • country, he: was disposed to recommend the achy. lion of this measure at' the preterit moment, bet hoped, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer ,carne to.bring this,question before the House, it would be foittid.there was nothing in his plait which when the (rinds should bear 'Such a price as to make it practicahle to? raise the necessary stip• ply by other. meens, ' -would precltide . House front doing** 'But. he begged the House would not .be fat! assay, to endeavour to, henifit one parrieulir or separate interest how.. ever -dear, by tithing any thing from the Sink- ing Fond for that .pnrpose,' it any other .way could be found of meeting' the-difficulties with. which we may have CO 'contend, , Wheuever . thie seei‘eresorted'to, tie trusted it would be on other than arbitraty pritielplek;and that the greatest care would be taken' to Loam agiainst unnecessa rily trenching upon it. If they look at the ope ration of it, and trace its effect on the Foods through 'the late 'war, they mat feel most attAiOirli ‘ . . • • , .