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INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862.-At a Preliminary Meeting of intending Metropolitan Ex hibitors, held at the Mansion House, on Tuesday, the 2 , th ult., on the invitation of the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, Who presided, the following Resolutions were submitted and agreed to nem. con.:- Ist. Proposed by Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, Bart., seconded by Mr. Hunt, of Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, That in order to promote a full representation in the Inter national Exhibition of the present state of the numerous Metropolitan Industries, which are detailed in the list pub lished by her Wajesty's Commissioners, to allot space among Metropolitan Exhibitors, and generally to advise her Ma jesty's Commissioner, it is expedient that intending Exhi bitors should form themselves into Trade Committees for each of the classes and sub-classes of the Exhibition not al ready assigned to any National Committee 2d. Proposed by Mr. P. Graham, seconded by Mr. , That to facilitate busin Thorn each i ess, Trade Committee elect a Nnb - committee of Management, to consist of three persons. 3d. Proposed Hon. Crace, seconded by Mr. Huber, ...That the Right the Lora Mayor be requested to allow a general meeting of the Ex ,ibitor6 to be held at the Mansion House when convenient to his Lordship, and that the Society of Arts be requested to allow the use of the Great Room in the Adelphi for the meeting of the Trade Committees. 4th. Proposed by Mr. De la Rue, seconded by Mr. Vignoles, That the best thanks of th s Meeting be given to the Right Hon. th e L or d M ayor for the use of the Mansion House on this occasion, and for the ability with which he has presided; and to Mr. Cole for the valuable advice he has rendered to this meeting. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. -CHEAP EXCURSION to ROSS and HEREFORD. —On SATURDAY, the Bth of Jane, an Excursion Train will leave Paddington at 3.30 p.m., and Reading.; at 4.35 p.m., for Ciren cester and Stroud (Fares, 12s. and 65.), Gloucester and Chel tenham (14s. and 75.), Ross and Hereford (16s. and 8s.); re turning on Monday, June 10, from Hereford at 5 p.m. SCINDE RAILWAY COMPANY.—INDUS STEAM FLOTILLA. The Directors are prepared to receive applications for DE u BENTURES at par, in sums of not les , than £lOO, for the unappropriated portion of the £83,000 Debentures about to be issued for the purposes of the Indus Steam Flotilla, bearing interest at 5 per cent. for five years, renewable for a second period of' five years, and payable by coupon at the Ban kin house of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, No. 1, Lombard street. The bonds will be dated on the Ist of May, 1851, and will bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum from that date on all monies paid on or before the 30th June, 1861. The payment of the principal and interest is guaranteed by the Secretary of State for India in Council, as will appear on the face of the Bonds. The Debentures are convertible into Indus Steam Flotilla Stock at par, at the option of the holder. Forms of application may be obtained at the offices of the Company, - - By order of the Board, de Railway Office s, G r e s T II ' a l /n ° . 3 1 1 1 O A u S s e, Old Broad-street, May 25, 1861. BURNELL, Sec. &ti GOVERNMENT SECURITY LIFE POLICIES. THE CONSOLS ASSOCIATION, 429, S 1. Prwides the Security of Consols for TRAND, LONDON Polic. 2. It lends, o r returns to Insurers ON DEMANDies at any time, about One-half of all Premiums Paid. 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MEDICATED, for restoring, and conditioning horses and Cattle, in boxes, 56 feeds, 125., sent carriage paid. Head Office, London-bridge, London; Manufactory, Hull DR. BRIGHT'S APHRODISION, The Phosphorised Nervine Tonic. A Newly-Discovered CHEMICAL COMBINATION of PHOSPHATIC SALTS, Quinine. Iron, Sze., the most mar- Venous and only remedy for Spermatorrheea Nervoug and Generative Debitity, Incapacity, Gleet, Stricture, and Prema ture Decline of Manly Power, caused in early life. Prices 11s, per bo•tle, or four 11s. bottles in one, 3ls. ; and in cases Containing three 335. bottles, £5, which saves £1 12s. ford-street Newbery, 45, St. Paul's Ch urch-yard ; Hannay, 63, Ox . GIVEN AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. TTENRY SMITH, M.D . , of the Univeit of Jena, has just p u bli shed, for the benefit of rs Nerv y ous Sufferers, a FREE EDITIO N of his valuable work, THE WARNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A almedical work on th e cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of emory Dimness of Sight, L ass i tude, Indigestion, Dislike 0 Society, Spermatorrhcea, Local Weakness, Muscular Re laxation Languor, Listlessn ess, Depression, Arc., which, if aeglected, result i n consumption, insanity, and premature ath ; with plai n di rections for perfect restoration to health end vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob eervation, to any a dd ress, on receipt of a directed envelope and two stamps. Address, HENRY' SMITH, M.D., 8, Burton crescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. • THE VIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN „ -- - LF E. NOR FOU WEEKS by Dr. RICORDS ESSENCE OF CONSULTATION NECES • ' ARY. This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most shattered consti ution, whether arising from self-pollution, excesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral is tou causes The time required to cure the most inveterate structionsr weeks ; and, if used accordin g t o the printed in (which are very simple), failur e i s i mpossible. mar This life-r estoring remedy should be taken by al l a b out to The rY, as its effects are permanent. It i s ac k nowledged b med ical press to b e th e grea t es t di scovery ever made. y S uccess in ev ery case i s as certain as that water quenches th irst. Dr. Rilord's Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full in' structions for use, at 11s. or or four quantities in one for 335., an d May be s en t to any part of the world, carefully pack e d on receint of remittance or stamps. _Dr. Ricord's Sole A gent i n London is Prout, Patent 'Medi flie Warehouse, 229, Strand (five doors west of Temple-bar). ----....._______ (Entered at Stationers' Hall.) MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS. pb__, e .Dr. LA 'MEET, Licentiate of the Royal College of ~Y, „.5 0 1 0 1 an s, F Edinburgh ; Member of the 'Royal College of e6r*,suL,TE,nglaond,may be Confidentially D n the Functional Derange ts f the l ervous and Reproductive System, daily at his m ' residence, eno 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. Dr. La'Mert is the o n ly qua li f i ed practitioner on the Medi cal Register who, for 20 years, has exclusively devoted hi s attenton to the treatme n t o f th ose ph militate against the happiness of Married Yse Life totriPrwevheienht the contracti on o f engagements which oonstituie the most cherished oljects of existence. Dr. La'Mert's Treatise on "Self-preservation," published by Mann, booksA.ler, 39, Cornhi:l, price ls., post free for 13 or sealed, for 20 stamps, contains much us e f u l i nformation ....,l' with the moral, social, and physical obligatio ns o f mar rs o , simple and efficacious instructions for the resto kation of health, vigour, and all the dignified prerogatives of I tanhood, when lost or impaired by pernicious habits o r aeess. The work will be found totally free from those ex ptrated and alarming statements contained in the host of r eended medical publications by unqualified persons, pro lensing to treat on these important subjects. At home from 10 till 3, and from 8 till 8. ,„he temporary relief obtained by means of purgative C lies Is purchased at the high pritv of the ag_gravation q 4 the perpetuating the disease."—HENßY, M.D. 1,,,. 11. MORE PILLS OR ANY OSIC ' C ONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION (DYTHER PHYSIC CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION (DYSFEPSIA), PALPI ,ApxoN, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, AND LIVER COMPLAINTS, -11BILI TY, DROPSY, EPILEPSY, PARALYSIS, COUGH, ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, SORE THROAT, ZETERS DV BARRY'S delicious HEALTH RESTOR ING REVALFNTA ARABICA FOOD, which, at a evir penc e per day, saves fifty times its cost in Medicine, and urea with Ont -11. or visits to dis.tue:P Purgine' or any of the uncertainties, annoy noes, and ruinous enses incurred by medicine, cod liver Certificate No. 36,41 e T lima e te fi s nd it the safest remedy, An e rew Ure, M.D., ~8 ' 9,,nd ; Dr. Campbell. • Dr. H arveY; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Shor- We extract af ew out of 56 on • 832.artnfde Docies of many years' flapitYthnia, Ccre No. 1,771. Lord ste - cures:— dysp,psia. Cure No. 49, yea r indiserlbable agony rem dyspepsia, nervousness tion, flatulency, spasms, sickn e " . • Elizabeth Jacobs, cough. constipa- Of Lynn; Norfolk. Cure No. 47.12 r. 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Cure No. 46,270. 1;fr :, James Roberts, , —.et' merchant ot Frimlev, Surrey, of .30 years' diseased '111 1' °•,8, spitting s,•.PPI ing d blood, liver teuollar testimonials from 60, 101.1.; 241 b. 40s.000patients who can be re.. derangement, partial deafness. ' e, d to, ti:L'ue Food is sold in canisters, 11b. a. lid., 21b, 4s. &1., 121 b. 51b 22s 101 b. 338. The ; super-refined quality, , . 77, Recrent posi,..l2lb., and 241 b. canisters carriage free ,' on receipt of litri, t s'' - lee order by Barry Du Barry and Co~ tiina. radon ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly, e. on ' Abhi, 0 CP li ch-street• 4, Cheap id , 63 And io , s, f i , 3, - ..acec ur Strand: so an d 60, leh o ,, , Oxford-street ; 330 and 152, • Phillips Aim istegate-street ; Batt Id, Finsbury-pavement , _ .. tree'-;.,tea dealers ,• Petty Wood, and Co. King WIIUIIIII ' ‘ 4l t•f l und137,1-tigh Hollnrui and all grawriii ,_, s st lb 6 1 6 0 6 0 6 0 5 13 5 13 5 13 5 7 5 7 5 7 to 18.' le 12. wdue. MIRE ititute .cour )Vann ) Con muted esting alenta near a dys flatu- , have rabies, ;ough, by Du 'orter. iambs, are o f 11b. The ceipt , Rer Ox- gate- Ce Bar d a )ton- Re of a 'hoe. A, to ry's, , to ver, Ed ader ver- 1 2 of ing to-day, Oats ly, but s, with s to 35s s to 34s 3 to 294 3 to sus 3to 48s in slow prices. Oats Further R. (1. .15 9 . .15 6, L. Booth, 307, Regent-street, W. THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in bus ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive, intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., late Piper and Co., Paternoster-row. Sixth Edition, price 2s. ; by post 26 stamps, DEBILITY and IRRITABILITY (Mental and Physical): the Causes, Symptoms, Effects, and Rational Treatment. By T. H. YEOMAN, M.D., Physicist! to the Gene ral Post-office Letter-Carriers' Provident Institution, &c. "In this age, when quackery is rampant, and almost every medical work must be closely and narrowly scrutinised ere an opinion can be pronounced upon it, it is highly refreshing to meet with one that puts forth no pretensions, and yet is deserving of the very highest commendations. Dr. Yeoman is a gentleman who has acquired an honourable name in his profession."—Weekly Times, London: By post only, from the Author, 25, Lloyd-square, W.C. Just published, Bvo, in cloth, price 55., by post free, 58. 6d., nN THE SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT of V STRICTURES of the URETHRA ; showing why they so often appear Incurable, when in reality they might be removed by the most simple means. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " This work is the production of a surgeon whose special attention has been directed, through a long profesdional life, to the treatment of strictures of the urethra. The cases which Mr. Courtenay has given supply ample evidence of his great discriminative power in the diagnosis of the various kinds of stricture, and of the scientific principles upon which their management is founded. By his systematic management an immense mitigation of pain to the unhappy sufferers is attained, and future mischief prevented. The work we can most unreservedly and confidently recommend as a valuab_ contribution, both to the general and professional reader, and ought to be found in the private study of all who are subject to stricture."—Medical Circular. London: 11. BaiMere. 219, Regent-street. AN INCOME FOR A POUND !—Any person wishing* to know how it is possible to realise a large fortune with £l, can obtain satisfactory information by ad dressing a letter to E. 8., 15, Calthorpe-place, Gray's-inn road, W.C. . IMPORTANT TO OWNERS OF HORSES.- After long experience, deep researches into chymistry, by the aid of costly machinery, I have discovered the means whereby oats, beans, and oilcake may be entirely dispensed with in the feeding of horses and cattle. I have now invented a compound meal, composed of locust beans, Indian corn, linseed, &c., at .£l6 per ton, which is equal in value to £24 worth of oats, beans, or any other feeding material in the market. Two quarts of this compound meal, weighing 31bs., at the cost of 5d., mixed with a peck of chopped hay, is a feed fiir a draught horse, and superior in every resrect to three quarterns of oats, costing 7d. 14 barrels weigh net 1 ton 1 cwt., at 16s. per cwt, £l6 16s. net cash, free, delivered by my own waggons to any station in London. Nothing less than 21 cwt. sold at the manufactory, and orders must be accom panied with cheque• crossed, made payable to the inventor, JOSEPH THORLEY. Steam Mills, Caledonian-road, King's-cross, April 8, 1851 . Single barrels, weighing 11 cwt., may be had :or 305., at 77, Newgate-street, City, or of any of my accredited Agents in the country. THORLEY'S CONDIMENTAL FOOD (mixed wi'h crushed Oats, &c. for My Ifoses.—Rea Admiral Rolls on the English Race ) horse. 40s. r per barrel containing 448 feeds. THORLEY'S CONDIMENT for My Cows. Increasing the quantity and enriching the quality of Milk. 40a. per barrel. THORLEY'S COMPOUND f or M ' Sheep. 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Consultations free.—Terms strictly moderate. 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street ; Old Steyne, Brighton; Bennett's-hill, Birmingham. DR. BRIGHT'S THREE DAYS' CURE. —The BUCIM GLOBULI S. containing the Quint essence of Copaiba, Cubebs, Buchu, &c., at once cure Gonor rhoea, obstinate Gleet, Stricture, and Urethral Discharges, immediately subduing all inflammatory action ; encased in sugar, thereby rendered tree from taste or smell, and adapted for either sex. Price 118. ;by post 12s. 6d. - • - Newbery, 45, St. Paul's Church-yard; Hannay, 63, Oxford street. 4. GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET, W., NEAR THE PANTHEON. DR. CULVERWELL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Midwifery, and Apo hecaries' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as tbove, on all oases of Nervous Debility, Languor, Incapacity, oss of Memory, Sterility, and all Functional Derangements , 1 both Sexes,-emanating from early and excessive lindu). CMS Ras Just published, price ls. ; by post, 13 stamps. 18 sealed, No. 4, An entire new and original Work, entitled OURSELVES. Synopsis : The PhysiOlOgyind Anatomy of our Generation - The Origin of Disease—Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. Mso, an Exposition of. and Remedy for, all I:Jrinazy Derange ments and Marital Disqualifications, MALE. The modern treatment of Sy - philis, Stricture, Blennorrhagia Gonorrhoea), Spermatorrhcea, Impotency, and all Diseases of the Urinary Organs, with Prescriptions, &c.l FEMALE. egu Th i e tu P it h l y e :io tn logy lle a a n it d h c heir Expectancies and Disappointments—The Cause and emoval of Sterility —The Theory and Symptoms of Gesta- AnandathSmicknoeissW—Comhoeire Women—Functiona l ra o rr n i n ag it e l — r. ion —Use of the Speculum. Also, No. 1. HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and LONGEVITY; On Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, and Indigestion. o. t LOVE AND MARRIAGE : Ind other Matches their Obligations, Happ terilitiness, and Disappointments; Love tiring secured. .Sy Removed, and Healthy Off- Ito. E. THE CASE BOOR : 100 Cases of SPERMATORRERA, I' heir Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confessions and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvanism, A m d m dux To be bad of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; and the Authors. Advice to the Working Classes fee Haifa-Guinea; (SPECIAL NOTICE.) Dr. Culvorwell is the only legally qualified medical practi tioner living of that name, and can be consulted (only as above). DR. CI7RTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD: MEDICAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRHCE A, NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &c. ust Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price ls., Sold by all Booksellers, and sent post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps, Ai ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PR E- T 1 MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions for cerfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. CURTIS, 15, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CHATTE R IT.—Caases of Spervaatorrhcea and Impotence; arlv Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various Disqualifications - 4 Marriage ; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhea and Syphilis. he Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting ARM to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive Lotion. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. Eine worli* 2‘u _ Clc k irti be g in on th l e i h a a n n h d o s o o d r yo rr un hi g s 4 , iac2i, 1856. and d a o tru ld. lx_va „ l s u n atl da e w yT or ini k, e a a n! , professional e‘Thisw w : rich produce decin, ~ ' youth or more frequently premature :lur , h , al4 ol co i n a i d erz e d rib a e g d r t e i a l t e b an o n on rce by nf pi t t h b o li a s e h d in ia g ea th ae is a Id aze."—" Daily Telegrapi," March 27, 1856. and Bytnnathekiiris'i:Ebigehie istemornhunaafnondnrdevtrawltoeinty empiricalyeiaio, :tiiiTyr:ttioo,i_s(cil_atechli_oefirtfo47l, London : Published by J. Al na le b n it , eh and impediments arising from nervous excitement and de. b ex il c it e y as ; es an i - t d to invalids suffering from youthful errors and 2eiton,vdavirruisaoeruile.l Lane, - noster-row; Mann, ss, Comb " ). 10 till 2 Esan 61 " 11 UltittiOn-10 to 3 and 0 to 8 ;,,4 14 AdaYor - - - R OYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Royal Exchange, London, 22d May, 186 t. The Court of Directors of the Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance do Hereby give Notice, that their Transfer-Books will be shut from TUESDAY, the 11th of June next, to THURSDAY, the 4th of July following; and that a General Court of the said Corporation will be holden at their Office at the Royal Exchange, on WEDNESDAY, the 19th of June, at Twelve o'clock at noon, to consider of a Dividend. ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary. THE INDIAN BUDGET OF 1861-62. (From the Supplement to the Friend of India of 3ray 2.) On Saturday, April 27, 1861, Mr. Laing made the fol lowing Financial Statement in the Legislative Council of India, introducing the Budget of 1861-62 : " I rise, Sir, for the purpose of submitting to the Legisla tive Council, on behalf of the Government, the Budget of India for the year 1861-62. The occasion is too grave for me to indulge in preface. India has been eagerly watching for this statement to learn whether she is solvent or bank rupt, and England turns an anxious eye to the East to know whether her Indian Empire is to be a future source of strength or of weakness. In presence of such great interests one sort of eloquence alone is admissible— that of facts, and to them I address myself. In the first place, how do we actually stand ? When my predecessor, the late lamented Mr. Wilson, brought forward his budget for 1860-61, little more than 12 months ago, he showed that India had long suffered from a chronic deficit, which since the mutiny had increased to a frightful amount. For 33 years out of the preceding 46 the average deficit had amounted to £2,500,000 a year, and the three years alone from 1857 to 1860 had added £38,000,000 to the National Debt. The prospective deficit for the year 1860-61 was esti mated by Mr. Wilson at £6 500,000. He proposed to meet it partly by new taxes, partly by reductions, and partly by drawing on the cash balances, which were then unusually large owing to the success of recent loans. Unfortunately, of these anticipations the last only was fully realized. The actual deficit of 1860-61 has been £6,678,000, and it has been met by a corresponding reduction of cash balances in India and England, which, on the 30th of April, 1860, stood together at £19,600,000, and on the 30th of April, 1861, will have been reduced to about £14,500,000. Let me explain this more fully. Mr. Wilson proposed in addition to those augmentations of salt, the Customs and Stamp duties which had been already enforced, and of which the year 1860-61 had the benefit,—two new taxes, the income tax and the license-tax. Of these the first was passed into law, but at so late a period that the year 1860-61 was only partially benefited by it. , The figures of the regular esti mate, published in February last, which give the latest authentic returns, and close the year 1860-61 with a final deficit of £6,678,000, include £803,550 of Mr. Wilson's income-tax. No accurate estimate was attempted of the produce of the new taxes at the time, but it was roughly stated that the income-tax might produce about £2,500,000 a•year and the license-tax about £1,000,000. I fear these estimates are greatly over stated. From the returns of the income-tax, which are now nearly completed, I can hardly venture to take its total annual net produce at more than £1,400,000. The license-tax is still a matter of conjecture, but, looking at the fact that with an average payment of 1z rupees per head, which is as much as we should get with three classes at 1,2, and 3 rupees, it would require 7,000,000 of tax-payers, representing 35,000,000 of population, to give us £1,000,000. I do not think we should get anything like it. The estimate of the authorities of Bengal would not make the license-tax yield above £400,000 for all India. This may be too low, but I believe that £2,000,000 for a full year's net produce of the income and license taxes together is quite the outside of what we could safely reckon upon. Assuming, then, the License Bill to have passed, and Mr. Wilson's financial measures to have been in fall operation for the year, how should we stand ? The deficit of 1860-61 is £6,678,000 but nearly £730,000 of this is occasioned by payments for compensations on account of the Mutiny, which will not recur; so that the real deficit is in round numbers £6,000,000. Mr. Wilson's new taxes would have given us £2,000,000 in 1861-62, as against £BOO,OOO in 1860-61, or an improvement of about £1,200,000 in revenue ; but from this must be deducted about £700,000 for certain windfalls in the shape of the sale of old stores, repayments by native princes, and so forth, received in 1860-61, and which will not be received again in 1861-62. The position, therefore left us by the budget of 1860-61 is simply this—deficit, £6,000,000; less £500,000 improved revenue; remaining deficit, £5,500,000. Perhaps some members of Council may have seen a much more favourable statement, which was recently made by the Secretary of State to the British House of Commons. It was stated that whereas Mr. Wilson had estimated the reduction of expenditure in 1860-61 at £1,700,000, and subsequently at £2,500,000, they had turned out in reality to be £3,300,000; so that after saving £3,500,000 in 1859 we had again saved £3,300,000 in 1860, which, with £3,500,000 of now taxes, extinguished our deficit, and made us independent cf loans except to complete our railways. This statement was made in perfect good faith by the Secretary of State, on informa tion which he had a right to rely upon, but unfortunately that information mistook wishes for facts, and anticipations for realities. There was not a reduction of £3,300,000, as supposed by Sir C. Wood, or even of £1,700,000, as esti • mated by Mr. Wilson, but a positive increase of £213,000 in the total expenditure of 1860.61 over that of 1859 60. The figures which I read from the regular estimate, corrected up to last February, show that the total expenditure was £46,417,000 in 1859-60, and £46,630,000 in 1860-61. Even if we allow £700,000 for the mutiny compensation, the ac tual reduction of 1860.61, compared with 1859-63, will be less than £500,000. The difference arose thus—The reduc tion of expenditure inlndia was over-estimated by£1,500,000, owing to a too sanguine expectation that the recommenda tions of the Military Finance Commission would be carried out in 1860-61. The increase of home expenditure for debt, railways, and army was overlooked. The produce of the new taxes was taken £1,530,000 too high, and it was forgotten that £BOO,OOO of the amount had already been received in 1860-61, and was included in the statement showing the deficit of £6,000,000. No allowance was made for the tem porary nature of some of the receipts of' 1860-61, such as the Punjab trade tax and sale of stores. These errors to gether amount to upwards of £5,000,000, and just make the difference between the equilibrium announced in England and the deficit of £5,500,000 which is the real result of last year's budget after crediting it with a full year's proceeds of all the new taxes, including the license tax, which is not yet sanctioned. I will not attempt to conceal from you that this was an unsatisfactory result. To find that, after the great effort made last year the income-tax had pro duced less than£l,soo,ooo,that reduetions had almost stood still, and that we were approaching a new financial year with our cash balances nearly exhausted, and our expendi ture £5,500,000 a year a-head cf our income, was indeed calculated to inspire gloomy apprehensions. Nor were these apprehensions relieved by the aspect of the railway question, which showed at least £20,000,000 to be wanted in the next three years to complete lines of the first nem 5- sity, for which capital no provision had yet been made,and which the Home Government would probably be compelled to borrow. All idea of help from England for general ex penditure was therefore clearly out of the question, and it was even doubtful whether funds could be provided to save us from the serious disaster of having to suspend railway works which were approaching completion. Well, there yawned the deficit of £5,500,000 wide and deep. There was no chance of craning, no time to look to the right or left, for the exhausted cash balances, hungry and inexorable, were howling in our rear. To stick the spurs well in and go straight at it was the only plan. Before I ask you to follow me, let me pause for a moment and make one remark. I have said that this was no occasion for personal observations, but there is one which I am anxious to make,lest I should be mis understood. I have described a gloomy state of things. I am now going to show you a brighter picture, In making a lengthened statement, it is not always possible to avoid speaking in the first person, and thus appearing to claim for myself individually the credit of acts of the Government. I wish emphatically to repudiate any such claim. In a Govern ment like that of India, it is manifest that the Governor- General must be, for good or evil, the mainspring of all policy. It is not for me to speak of Lord Canning. When a man has filled such a post in such times, his character be longs to history. But this I may say without indiscretion, that if any one has represented his Excellencey as luke warm and indifferent to the cause of reduction, he is entirely mistaken. From the first time I met him in India down to the present day Lord Canning's language to me has been the same—that he would carry out any practicable amount of reduction rather than inflict any new and oppressive taxes on the people of India. Nor should I be doing justice to my colleagues in the Council if I omitted to state that they have been, one and all, and on all occasions, animated by the same spirit. Indeed, it stands to reason that so much could not havebeen done in so short a time if the ground had not been tilled and the crop sown, and all but ripened by their exertions. Sir, as far as I have seen, all concerned have done their tay duty, but among the many able officers and servants of the St a t e w h o h ave g i ven us t h e i r a id an d co - o p era ti on , ztheael, a reis ti one body whose services have been so pre-eminent that I should b e wrong no t t o men ti on th em . I mean th e Military Finance Commission, whose members have la boured,often industry,u n er ands n i difficulty nte a l n li d e n discouragemen t,indeed,w ith a beyond praise.the future historian g of India should have occasion to mention th a t i n t h e year 1 8 61 Ind i a was save d from a great financial danger, that history will be very im perfectly written if it omits the names o f Colonel Balfour and Nor his wo u c l o d l 1 l e a w e e li s l; tary Finance Commissionsj a,ni:t r i e s d m uo a t i i n o l n y s ow in ing th t e ha n t s w vy e have and marine. I return now to my rhave p i t e is ti e £ n 6 o , e oo o o f , O p O n o b i n o t f he tc e figures. R eco ll ec t th e de malwisahyso w fo t u o nd meetth this maxim m l a n x m inl y de ficit good—that there is no such thing as an art or mys• tery in state craft. The b roa d pr i nciples of common sense w hich apply to private apply equally to public affairs, and that which is not simple is seldom sound. Well, if a private individual finds that his balance at his banker's is running dry, and that he is spending beyond his income, what does he do ? He cuts down his expenditure. This is what we have done. We have reduced our expenditure by £3,600,000. Recollect in 1859 we reduced our expenditure from the war standard by £3,500,000, in 1860 by £500,000, and in 1361 we shall reduce it further by £3,600,000. That is a great result, and I will now explain how we arrive at it. The great reduction is of course in the native army. Here was the greatest excess—here the greatest scope for econo my.l In April, 1857. or immediately before the mutiny, it appears from dicta r eturns that the total establi s h e d nf the Indian army, including Queen's troops, was Europeans, 45,522; natives, 266,852. The cost of this army was in round numbers £11,500,000 a year in India, and £1,250,000 in England; but this was below the proper cost, as it was on ly attained by allowing the effective Eu ro p ean force to remain datigerMlY ksiow its east lislAc4 ktr9Dgth. The real cost should have been about £12,000,000 in India, and £1,500,000 in England. In 1858 59, owing to the mu tiny, this cost rose to £21,000,000 in India, and £3,750,000 in England, showing a total increase of £11,000,000 on the expenditure of 1856-57, to which should be added an in crease of £1,000,000 • for military police. This was the maximum point, at which reductions began. In 1859-60 the military expenditure in India was reduced to £17,750,000 and in England to £2,750,000, making a total reduction of £4,250,000. In 1860-61 the expenditure in India was £15,279,000, in England £2,750,000, showing a further saving of £2,500,000, which, as I explained just now, has been swallowed up by the increase of interest on the debt and other charges, and which still left the cost of the army of India £5,250,000 more in 1860-61 than it was in the year before the mutiny. This army consisted in 1859, ac cording to a return of the Military Finance Department, which I hold in my hand, of 284,529 men, exclusive of 69,254 military police—or in all of 353,783 armed natives. We had,[therefore, at the commencement of 1860, 60,000 more armed natives in our pay than in 1857, in addition to the increased European force, and the increased cost of our army was 15,250,000 re year. Now, how has the Govern ment dealt with this state of things ? In the first place, they have decided that there shall be no hybrid corps like mili tary police, which really swell the native army without ap pearing on its roll. At least 50,000 men of military police and miscellaneous local levies have been disbanded, or are in course of disbandment, and, with the exception of about 8000 military police in Bengal who have been retained for the present for special reasons connected u ith the organisa tion of a constabulary in that Presidency, you may say that nothing of this sort remains in India. When we say ' army' we mean army, and when we say police' we mean police —constables with batons under civil authority, and not se poy regiments under a new name. Next, we have reduced all native regiments to a uniform force of 600 privates, or 712 natives of all ranks per regiment. Finally, we have broken up and disbanded regiments. Upon this point I think the Government of India hrls hardly done itself jus tice in not making public some comprehensive view of the extent of reductions effected. In Bengal there were, in 1857, 146 regiments of native infantry, in 1859 the number was 98, in 1860 it was reduced to 91; and of these 8 are under orders for disbandment, and an order for reducing 11 more has been passed and will appear in a few days in the Gazette, bringing the number to 72 regiments, or less than half the number before the mutiny. Madras before the mu tiny had in all 55 regiments of native infantry, including 2 of veterans and 1 Pegu batta'ion. The number was raised in 1859 to 62 regiments—it is now 53 regiments. Bombay had 34 regiments before the mutiny. In 1859 there were 40. Of these 6 have been disbanded, and orders passed to dis band 4 more. As regards native cavalry, Bengal had, in 1857, 50 regiments. In 18.59 there were 56 regiments. At present there were 43, and orders have just passed for disbanding 11, leaving the total number 32. This in cludes all native cavalry of the Punjauh, Central India, and elsewhere, as well as those under the Commander-in- Chief. Madras had 8 regiments of native cavalry in 1857; the number has been reduced to 4. Bombay had 9 regiments in 1857. These were recently converted into 14 regiments of reduced strength on the Irregular footing, which will be reduced to 9 or lower. I say nothing of native artillery, for no such thing exists, except a few mountain batteries at un healthy posts on de frontier. The result is, therefore, that 77 native regiments are broken up since 1859—viz., 44 of infantry and 33 of cavalry. Of these 24 regiments of in fantry and 20 regiments of cavalry are the result of the re ductions now ordered or enforced within the last few months. The effect of these reductions is to lower the strength of the native army from 284,000, at which it stood in 1859, to about 140,000 men. Including military police, the reduction of native armed force since 1859 will be very nearly 200,300 men, of whom upwards of 10 0 , 000 men have been red uc ed within the last few months. I should mention that in effect ing these reductions it has been thought right to make some , addition to the pay of the irregular native cavalry, who find their own horses and provisions. Prices have risen so much that it is difficult for them to keep out of debt on their old pay, and soldiers in del t are always dangerous. But I place it on higher grounds. It is the duty of the State to treat liberally men who are ready to shed their blood for us in case of danger, be they Hindoo or Massulman, English or native —here at least the maxim should apply that the labourer while found faithful is worthy of his hire. I spoke of the above reductions as carried out, because they are so in a great measure ; and what remains is distinctly ordered in a manner which admits of no discussion. Madras has taken the lead in reductions, but Bombay is well up, and Bengal, as you will see, is coming with a rush, and will perhaps make a dead heat of it on the post. The Military Finance Department, who are constituted as a permanent department of the Supreme Government,to see to the enforcement of all that relates to estimates and military finance, give us means like those which the Treasury and War-office in England possess, of insuring the observance of estimates and check ing expenditure. So much for our native army. In our Eu ropean force no material eaange is proposed on that now existing. Concurrently with these reductions of force, we have made corresponding ' , Auctions in the Commissariat, Ordnance, and other military departments, and in the ex penditure on barracks. The general result is that our mili tary expenditure of all sorts, including military buildings, will be reduced from last year by £3,220,000. Our estimate of military expenditure in India for the year 1861-62, which has been revised with great care by the Military Finance Department, is £12,800,00), or £2,479,000 lower than in 1860. 61. But this does net show the whole amount of per manent saving, as the redactions cannot all be carried out by the Ist of May, and native troops cannot be disbanded without gratuities. The estimates of this Military Finance Department is £12,199,242 as the cost fora year of the esta blishment now decided upon for permanent adoption, and £600,760 as the temporary cost of this yoar in gratuities, bounty, pay, and other expenses, before the reductions are fully carried out. It ie right to state, however, that for £500,000 or £600,000 of this reduction we are indebted to a suspension of the usual demands for stores, owing to the vast accumulations of recent years. I am sanguine, how ever, that when the new police is fully organised, and after another year or two of peace and tranquillity, the native army may be still further reduced, and the total expendi ture in the army kept at £12,250,000 or even brought down to £12,000,000 in India, and £2,000,000 in England. In the meantime our actual reduction for the ensuing year is £3.220,000, but of this £409,000 is in military buildings, of which we give the benefit to civil public works. In this estimate of military expenditure I have only allowed for a small decrease on the home charges, proportionate to what we know of the actual diminution of numbers in depot— viz., from £2,772,610 in 1860-61 to £2,500,000 in 1861-62. But I hope and believe the reduction will be much larger. It is perfectly manifest that the officers and men belong ing to Indian regiments in depot at home are as much a reserve for England as for India. In the event of any sudden and serious danger threatening England there is no doubt that these troops would be available there, and it is not fair that India should pay the full cost of the reserve establishments in England under such circumstances. The day is past when England can consider India a sort of milch-cow on whom to draw fora little here and a little there, in order to round an English budget or ease an English estimate. Strict and impartial justice ' must be the rule in all money matters between England and India, if England wishes to get a return for her capital, which will soon amount to £100,000,000, invested in Indian securities and railways, and if she wishes to see India be come every day more and more the best source of supply for her raw produce and the best market in the world for her staple manufactures, I know that arrangements are pending at home by which we hope to commute all charges for depots or otherwise for a fixed sum per head for every soldier in India; and if a fair settlement is made I look for a considerable further reduction on the military estimates. In reducing the expense of the army we have not been unmindfulit ear lt tsloo o o f ei s t op % a e ar a s y, i e s e a t r a e r e ts andetrov what ic t he welle w T se knownt Indianher e t to Navy sh couragecost o for f our gallant Indian Navy to say that the whole fleet could not stand a single broadside from a man-of-war of modern construction and armament. In the event of a naval war we must trust to Britannia to rule the seas, and really, in these hard times, India cannot afford to go on paying £1,000,000 a year for the honour and glory of having a navy of her own, which is no real protection. Nor does it seem the wisest of policies to run Government steamers on our rivers, competing with railways and steamers of com panies on whose capital we are guaranteeing 5 per cent. Accordingly the axe has been laid to the root of that tree, and our budget of 1861-62 shows, by way of commence ment, a reduction of naval and marine charges £536,000, from £856,070, as it was last year, and £1,000,000, as it would have been with no reductions, now that our steamers have returned from China. This reduction will, I hope, be carried still further when arrangements now pending are completed, by which a small but efficient force of the Royal navy shall be constantly stationed in the Indian Seas, which will give us much more security against any possible hostile attack 'than we have ever hitherto had. Nor have we been unmindful of economy in our civil ex penditure. The first four heads of the abstract of the Budget Estimates, which I hold in my hand, comprise the cost and charges of collecting the revenue, civil and politi cal establishments, law and justice, and police, which in clude the whole cost of civil administration in India, except for public works. The aggregate of these four heads is £14,864,000 in 1861-62 against £14,876,389 in 1860-61, showing a decrease of £12,385, instead of the large increase which has been steadily going on of late years. But this gives a very inadequate view of the real saving in civil ad- T morehe total t l a B l 6l c charge g t eh than would, in 186 t 11 0 e . 6 r e l; more ministration, thathan in, f l o B r 6o t h .6 e l c f h o charge T h e e i n i n elrBe6asl-e6d2 costincludes ofo opium, i m 35 , 0 8 ,0 a 01 salt, and income-tax, and £150,000 for contingencies connected with the famine, for none of which is civil administration l rseoO much ,Ooo. For indebted this large to t h e r red Civil t h fp t er a r i o d s ;:h br i e a 2 a :c t 3 e o a B s bl s t le loerefuesscsp!vosBl responsible. that boloeo : administrationthe saving remainedinoivi administrationt h e a m e. B ut rooting out abuses and revising estimates with the teFiaeinnunainoutcecbieCvtotaklmexmepniesaustidolinetsu,swrtehhwanoehave aided us in reducing outlay, mostme ritorious zeal. A portion of this has been effected in the police, which, under the old system, was both costly and inefficient; and here the assistance of the Police Commis sion has been of the greatest value. But there has also been a saving in a variety of minor departments, which, although small in individual cases, amount up to a large sum in the aggregate. The system of budget estimates has already afforded us valuable means of checking this sort of expendi ture in detail, and I have no doubt that it will he found every year more and more an efficient instrument for checking extravagance and enforcing a wise economy —an economy which, let me observe in passing, is only to be attained in conjunction with efficiency, and is wide as the poles apart from anything like shabbiness and stin g i ness. A Govern ment, to be wel served and generally respected, must never do a sharp and screwish or a mean and illib eral act, or, de pendw ith tenfoldupo upon it, expense n p s a eln l e t dta ly end dus as nadyeinrg soon hundredfoldthoae w f s to-day o new time- discredit i a s y e r w e d i will o c n o row. I may as well observe here, that th e es ti mates of which I now give the general results are all taken from the de ta e ild presentethed permits,system,to a s t a e na s sds mayep trti be useful fo r pu b lic information will enable those who take an interest i n suchtrace bp ee e s details of expenditure under diff erent heads tro e and in different Governments. The next head of expenditure in my Budget shows an increase, not a reduction, but I t • hmk you will pardon this when I say that it is for civil public works. The Imperial a ss i gnmen t f or civil publicwois is £3,121,129 in 1861-62, against £2,897,671 in 1860-61, or £223,458, in addition to which £230,000 more will be spent next year than this from local funds, and the amount re quired for repairs is smaller, so that on the whole the ex penditure on new works of improvement will be about £500,000 more in 1861-62 than in 1 860-61. Of this a large portion will go in making roads, which I believe to be, as a general rule, the most advantageous way of spending money in most parts of India. We shall especially urge on the con struction of good roads in the principal cotton districts, so as to be prepared to bring the resources of India into play to sup ply the threatened deficiency of cotton from America. Im mense interests are at stake on this question, not only ma terial—for who can measure the extension of commerce, and the mutual benefit to England and to India which would result from a transfer of the chief supply of cotton from America to the East ?—but moral also, for the issue for which Wilberforce 'contended, and for which England has sacrificed her West Indian colonies and poured forth her millions like water, —the issue of slavery or freedom, is staked mainly on the question whether America's danger is to be India's opportunity. If cotton produced by free labour can undersell cotton the produce of slavery, then and not till then, the cause of freedom is finally gained. Private enterprise, and private enterprise alone, can decide this great issue, but the Government have cer•• tain duties to perform, and they will not perform them negligently. To press on the construction of roads and com munications; to pass just laws for the enforcement of con tract s ; to provide ready tribunals for dispensing justice ; to impress on all connected with them the importance of en couraging independent English enterprise by every means consistent with justice, and with the equal rights of our native subjects—these are within the legitimate functions of Government, and you may depend upon it, sir, that it shall not be 'said of us that slavery triumphed and India missed its opportunity because its Government was too blind to discern, or too weak to carry out, the policy which at a great crisis,:Providence had clearly pointed out to us. In addition to roads, we shall spend more money on canals, and especially in developing those works of irrigation in connexion with our great canals which have proved of such infinite value in averting the consequences of the famine. Colonel Cotton has truly said that water is gold in India. It is more than gold—it is life ; and among the most lament able consequences of our financial embarrassments has been the necessity of starving works, which convert famine into plenty. I have now gone through all the principal heads of expenditure except for railways. I shall have to pay about £lOO,OOO more than last year for guaranteed interest, after deducting net traffic receipts, the increase of traffic not having kept pace with the increase of capital paid in by the companies. But I shall save the £473,334 set down last year for loss by exchange on railway capital, for as nearly as I can estimate the interest due by railway companies on advances made by Government will balance any loss by ex change from further payments under existing contracts, and I take it for granted that the Home Government, on whose attention it has been urged, will not think of extending a single contract with this most objectionable clause. The in terest on debt has increased by £313,299 owing to the recent loan in England and a full year being payable in the whole of the 51 per cent. loan in India. I thus arrive at the gene ral result of a total expenditure for 1861-62 of £41,554,699 as compared with £45,154,449 in 1860-61, showing a reduc tion of £3,599,750. I proceed now to the other side of the ac count to show what my revenue will be:to meet this expen diture. Land Revenue—The total revenue for 1861-62 £18,951,156 against £18,762,447 in 1860-61. This increase has arisen, notwithstanding a loss of £360,000 in the North west and Punjab, owing to the famine, in consequence of sales of lapsed estates in Bengal, and of a general slight in crease in districts unaffected by the famine. Including the loss of land revenue, the grants for relief, and the cost of extra works in the suffering districts the total loss by famine in this budget may be taken at about £600,000. Income tax—The estimated receipt for 1861-62 is £1,948,094, but this is not a fair representation of the y roduce of the tax for a year, as it includes a large amount of arrears from the previous year. The gross annual produce of the income-tax may be taken at about £1,750,000, from which must be de ducted the cost of collection, say 10 per cent., and the loss on the moturpha and trade taxes in the Punjab and Onde, which are partially superseded by the income-tax, amount ing to £186,827, leaving £1,389,000, or say in round num bers £1,400,000 as the net annual produce of the tax. Cus toms—An allowance of £200,000 has been made for a falling off in the import duties on British manufactures at Cal cutta and Bombay, owing to the dullness of trade, but this is made up by the increase of the salt duty and the buoy ancy of various minor receipts from Customs, especially on the inland lines. A further allowance of £lO,OOO is made for a reduction of the duty on imported twist and yarn from 10 to 5 per cent. The duty was raised last year by Mr. Wilson, who estimated the gain to the revenue at £67,000, but it has only amounted to about half that figure, and no one 'can doubt that it is a duty which ought not to be maintained at a rate which might stimulate the growth of a protected interest. The principle of free trade is to im pose taxes for purposes of revenue only, and if yarn be a fit subject for taxation there ought to be an Excise on the native manufacture equal to the Customs duty on the imported article, unless the latter be so small in amount that it would be palpably not worth while to establish a c - amtervailing system of Excise. With a 5 per cent. import duty this might be the case, but at any higher rate untaxed native yarn would manifestly b rr pro'. tected article, and any interest which might grow up would infallibly share the fate of other protected interests, and find itself at some early day left to struggle with foreign compe tition. I wish I could at once reduce the duty on piece goods and other manufactures from 10 to 5 per cent., but, unfortu nately, the amount of revenue is too large to enable me to propose it without imprudence. Looking at the precarious ness of the present high price of opium and the possible con tingencies of the famine, I should not be justified in parting with £400,000 of revenue without seeing very clearly how I could replace it. But that is no reason why I should not at once deal with yarn where the amount is small, the failure of the high duty palpable, and the case urgent, because par ties are actually building mills and importing machinery on the strength of the high duty. If, upon equal terms, those parties can compete with Manchester, by all means let them do so, but it would be unfair to induce them to invest capi tal on the faith of a protective duty, which certainly could not be maintained for a couple of years. Salt will show a large increase, viz., from £3,391,630 in 1860-61 to £3,980,000 in 1861-62. In 1859 the rates of duty on salt were as follows : Bengal, 2r. Ba. per maund; Madras, 14a. ditto; Bombay, 12a. ditto; North. West, 2r. ditto ; Punjab, 2r. ditto ; Oude, 2r. ditto. The Government then proposed to raise the duty generally by Ba. per maund, but after some correspon dence with the local Governments the following rates were adopted : Rate Increase on adopted. old rate. R. A. P. R. A. P. Bengal North• West and (Jude 2 8 0 0 8 0 Madras 1 0 0 0 2 0 Bombay Punjab The expectation of increased revenue has been fully rea lised. The produce of the salt duties (exclusive of imported salt) rose from £2,602,000 in 1858-59, the last year of the old duties, to £3,391,000 in 1860-61, showing an increase of £789,000, to which must be added about £lOO,OOO for the increase of duty on imported salt levied through the Cus toms. The slight increase of duty, therefore, imposed in 1859, and which I believe no one has felt, has produced nearly £1,000,000, or two-thirds as m uc h as the income-tax. The fact is, the increase of duty had no effect whatever in checking consumption. The amount per head, or for each family, paid for salt is, as Mr. Plowden conclusively showed in 1855, very slight, and the general rise of wages and increase of prosperity have made this slight amount comparatively still slighter; so that a large increase of consumption has gone on concurrently with an advance of duty. In Madras the returns show an average consumption of 480,000 reminds a month for the sixteen months since the duty was raised, as against 456,000 maunds per month for the corresponding period under the old duty. In fact a rise of duty of 121 per cent. coincided with an increase of consumption of 5 per cent. and the revenue gained 15 per cent. In Bombay an increase of 33 per cent. on the duty raised the revenue 36 per cent., showing here also an increase of consumption. In Bengal the result was still more favourable, and in the North-West the result was extraordinary, showing an increase of no less than 30 per cent. in con sumption, coincident with a rise of 25 per cent. in duty. In the face of facts like these there could be no reasonable doubt that a further slight increase may be borne without oppressing the people or checking consumption, especially as the approaching opening of the railways will, in many cases, cheapen the price of salt in the interior. It would not, however, have been wise to hazard the results already obtained by too large an advance so soon after that lately made. Accordingly, after consultation with the local Go vernments, the following additions have been made, viz : la Bengal, Bombay, and Madras 4 annas per maund, rais ing the duty to 3r. 4a. in Bengal, and lr. 4a, in Madras and Bombay. :In the North-West and Oudo Ba., raising the duty to 3r., and doing away with the preventive line at Allahabad. In the Punjaub lr. assimilating the duty on this side of the I n du s to that on the North- West. In Nagpore lr. Ba., and in Scinde lr. per maund will be imposed where no duty now exists. A correspond ing increase is made in the Customs' duties on imported salt. The effect of these additions of duty, estimated on the actual rate of consumption, with some allowance for a pos sible falling off, though I see no reason to anticipate any, gives me an additional revenue of £598,370. Bengal opium has only been taken at the same figure as last year, though the actual market price is 600 r. per chest higher, which would warrant an increased estimate of fully £1,500,000. An increase on Bombay opium is taken of £468,000, owing partly to the increased duty of 100 r. per chest, to take effect effect from October, and partly to the increased number of passes over last year's estimate, which are expected from the pi esent crop, and will be realised either before the Ist of May, or soon afterwards. As there is no prospect of any material increase of the supply of Bengal opium in the com ing year I see no reason why the present high prices may not continue for some time, and, if so, we shall unquestion ably realise a much larger sum from opium than is put down in this estimate. The estimate for stamps for 1861-62 is £1,216,040, which is £383,370 more than last year, and £557,052 more than 1859-60, which was the last complete year of the old duties. This increase is very satisfactory, and in fact the additions made to the salt and stamp duties last year have yielded alarger revenue than the income-tax. The different heads of miscellaneous receipts show a falling off from last year of £750,000. This arises from certain windfalls in 1860-61 not being repeated. For instance, £340,000 was received in one sum last year from the Rajah of Putteala on account of certain ceded districts, which of course does not recur. The other heads of revenue are as nearly as possible the same as in 1860-61. The general result is, that the revenue of 1861.62 will amount to £41,294,595 as compared with £39,285,731 in 1860-61, showing an increase of £2,008,864. My expenditure was £40,254,699 without railway interest, or £41,554,699 with it; so that in the former case I should have a surplus of £1,039,896, in the latter a deficit of £250,104. In 1860-61 the deficit, exclusive of railways, was 14,176,541, and with railways £5,868,718. On the strictest principles a large portion of the difference between £1,800,000 paid for guaranteed interest and the £550,000 of net receipts from opened railways, is chargeable to capital. It might even be contended that a portion of the large expenditure on canals and other reproductive works is so chargeable, but as re gards at least £1,000,000 of the charge for railway interest, there can be no doubt that it is as much a charge against capital as the cost of making the line. This will properly be shown in the accounts, but, on the whole, I think it more prudent for the present to provide for it as current expendi ture. Tho charge is likely to continue for several years at least, the money must be paid, and I think it extremely!: , ! . portant to show that we have no arrears, and that henV o o u r r ward our receipts for the year will honestly cover all expenditure. I think it speci a lly important for the worse follow ing reason. The fear of the new taxation is often than the reality of new taxes. In all countries,ud more especially 11 i n a country like India, it is most unde s i r able to by OA in• 'keep the 13.thads of the people cowtantly harassed definite apprehension of fiscal changes. Now, there is no guarantee that a Government can hold out against new taxes as long as it has a deficit. The money it must have to pay its way, and as it cannot borrow for ever, new taxes must be tried if the old ones do not suffice. But if the old taxes do suffice, no sane Government will risk unpopularity by resorting to new ones, and the nation may rely confi dently, that, if any change be proposed, it will be in the pleasant form of reduction. Now, if we fairly extinguish our deficit while we are about it, including the railway in terest, I think we may say that we shall be in this position. It is true that the high'price of opium is precarious, and that our Customs' duties are in some cases too high. But I hope and believe that further reduction, especially in military expenditure on the native army, will be found practicable ; our land revenue would at once improve on the cessation of famine ; the salt, the Customs, the Excise, the Stamps, and other branches of revenue, cannot fail to increase with the opening of railways and with the increased trade and prosperity of the country. On the whole, apart from wars, of which I cannot see any present prospect, or from some sudden calamity, like a great famine, which is in the hands of Providence, I may truly say that, as far as I can see, if we honestly extinguish our deficit now, no Chancel lor of the Exchequer need ever be sent again from England to India to devise new taxes. That part, at least, of his mission will be gone. and, with Prospero, he may bury his magic wand certain fathoms deep and renounce his art. Do you then go with me in saying that, after having for so many, and I fear such weary rounds, with this huge bully Deficit, we shall not let him claim a cross, or call it a drawn battle? If so, in the language of the rine, let us go in and finish. Or, if you prefer an Indian simile, as this tremen dous tiger has given us such a fight, let us pour a parting shot into his carcass to finish him off effectually, and make assurance doubly sure. The means are ready to my hand in the licence tax, which has been so long announced and so nearly passed into a law that nothing remains but to read the bill a third time. Every one, I believe, expects it, and has long looked upon it as part of the financial scheme an- , nounced by the Government, but I must confess that, I feel, great reluctance to proceed with it until, I v*n combine it with an amendment of the income tax', so as make the united measure one of relief and satisfaction to India rather than of oppression and burden. I have told you frankly that, financially speaking, 1 think the income tax has been a failure. It lays down a great and just principle that the capital and trade of India, as well as her land, shall contri bute in a fair proportion towards the support of the State. From that principle I believe no Government of India will ever recede, and as regards incomes which are fixed and certain, and can be ascertained without prying into people's private affairs, there is no fairer mode of applying it than by a percentage on the amount of income. But when you come to trading or professiodal incomes, or incomes which cannot be ascertained without calling for complicated returns and instituting private inquiries, I believe that some fixed scale of assessment under a graduated license tax is a better mode of applying the principle. I would almost lay this down universallo, for I think it is a fatal objection to a tax, that it conduces to extensive demo ralisation by holding out a premium to fraud, and that its inevitable tendency is to embark the Government in a con stant warfare with a large section of its subjects—a warfare carried on by vexatious petty interference and inquisition on the one hand, and by evasion andchicanery on the other. Certain I am that India, at any rate, is no place for such a tax on incomes going as low as £2O a-year, and that the Government would be wanting in their duty if they did not address themselves to the task of endeavouring so to amend this portion of the income tax as to raise the necessary re venue in a manner less open to objection. Such an amend mend could not be introduced as part of the present budget, for obvious reasons ; but I hope, before long, to be in a po sition to mature a measure, and until that is the case, I am anxious, as I before stated, to the licence-tax in reserve and net impose it in a crude form as a separate measure, without compensation or equivalent. To raise even £600,000 by the license-tax, we must send the taxgatherer to four million doors, or, in other wor d s , mus t afect 20 million of our population. That is a serious matter, ani, although I should not shrink from it in case of necessity, I confess that I should prefer making the license-tax part of a general scheme for mitigating the income-tax, and moulding the two together into a system more simple, sa tisfactory, and congenial to native habits and wishes. Well, then, I hear you say, How about the deficit ? Is it to be a drawn battle after all, or a stalemate, when we thought the next move would win the game ?' By no means. I have a move in reserve, which I think will effectually checkmate him. I invite your particular attention to this, which I hope is the concluding part of my statement, for I consider it to be the most interesting, as it is the most novel feature of the financial scheme of the Government. I want about £500,000 fairly to weather my deficit, and get into smooth water with a small surplus. The ob vious resource would be to dock it from public works. The Government, as I have already shown, have been so far liberal to public works of a useful nature as to propose to give them £500,000 or upwards more than last year. But if we have not got the money we cannot give it, and therefore we should be very reluctantly driven to cur tail roads, canals, and other useful works of this descrip tion, to the allotment on which they have been carried on, or rather I should say starved since the mutiny. Now, this would really be most lamentable. It is heart lereaking to hear of districts barren for want of water, where water is to be had ; of roads half finished and abandoned, or finished but useless for want of some bridge which has tumbled down. India has two great wants—irrigation and commu nication. I do not mean grand schemes only which strike the imagination, so much as village roads and village t an k s and watr cuts, which enable every rood of ground to grow its crop and send it to market. Such works we are most anxious to encourage, and accordingly, instead of simply curtailing the Imperial allotment to local governments, we say to them— Take what we are able to give you, and for the residue take certain powers of local taxation and raise it yourselves: There are certain subjects which can be dealt with far better by local than by imperial taxation, For instance, tobacco. The discussion on this subject last year, and the returns from the various local governments, prove distinctly thet there is no scheme of uniform and Imperial taxation applicable alike to all India short of a Government monopoly, to which there are grave objections, under which we could hope to obtain any considerable revenue. In one province the system of land tenure makes an acreage tax difficult ; in another, the vicinity of a native State throws impediments in the way of an Excise; in a third, the gene. ral cottage cultivation makes licenses at anything beyond a nominal race almost impracticable. But many of these pro vinces could raise a considerable revenue, without sensible pressure, from tobacco, if left to deal with it in their own way, and under a system which might vary in case of need, so as to suit the peculiar circumstances of each district. Well, we say to them, ' Take tobacco and make what you can of it for your local roads and canals, instead of the allotment which we wished to give you, but could not afford from the Imperial Budget.' The same principle applies to other sub jects of taxation. We place no limit upon it, except this, that every proposal for local taxation shall be subject to the sanction of the Governor-General in Council, and of the Legislative Council when a law is required, in order to see that it is not inconsistent with Imperial taxation or with Imperial policy. For instance, suppose a certain town, being anxious to get a road made, proposes to have an octroi, and the local Government adopts the application. The Supreme Government examines the scheme to see that there is no transit duty on general trade, which would be contrary to public policy and injurious to other parts of the empire. But if it is a mere octroi, and the question is simply whether the inhabitants of a given town shall for a time pay a little more for their eggs and poultry in order to get a road, that is their affair ; and we sanction the tax. This is only one illustration, but there will be many such cases, as people will regard with very different eyes a temporary local tax levied for some object of undoubted advantage in their own district, and a general tax, which goes into the remote and unfathomed gulf of the Imperial Exchequer. We have already received from several local Gevernments the most satisfactory assurances of their ability and readi ness to raise considerable sums by small and comparatively unfelt local taxes for local objects. I think, therefote, that by this means not only will the Imperial Budget obtain the requisite relief, but more money will, on the whole, be raised and expended on useful local works. This, however, by no means comprises the whole scope and object of the measure. By enacting lOcal budgets, the Government hope not merely to meet a temporary difficulty, but to inaugurate a permanent improvement. It has long been a standing complaint with other presidencies and provinces that they were deprived of their fair share of self-govern ment, and kept in a state of galling and humiliating depen dence on the bureaux of Calcutta. Well, Sir, the power of the purse is the ultimate power, and as long as local Governments are absolutely subservient to Calcutta in financial matters it is evident that they can have no real in dependence. But if, without sacrificing in any way the unity of the Empire and Imperial control in Imperial mat ters, we give them local budgets, their position is altered. We propose to give them not only powers of local taxation, but possibly to credit them with a liberal share of reduc • tions of expenditure, which they may be able to make on the estimates of the general Budget. Each Government will therefore have a direct interest in economy, in order to increase the fund applicable to local works, and I cannot fancy that Madras, for instance, will long continue to spend £160,000 a-year in public works establishments to look after £460,000 a-year of expenditure upon actual works, where it is apparent that every £1 extra spent on establish ments means £1 more to raise by local taxes, or £1 less to spend on roads and canals. It is obvious that such a system of local budgets would harmonise extremely well with what I hope soon to see adopted,—viz., Local Legislative Councils at the Presidencies. It would at once give them an appro priate and dignified position, and I can imagine nothing more useful than that the details of a local budget, such as that of Madras or Bombay, should be submitted to the in telligent scrutiny of a council comprising both experienced officials and picked representatives of the mercantile and native communities. I think also the scheme would greatly foster the growth of municipal institutions, and of what is still more important, of the spirit of local self-help and self guidance, which is at the bottom of a nation's greatness. India is not altogether devoid of that spirit of self-govern ment which characterises the Anglo-Saxon. In her vil lage communities and her punchayets we find traces which may remind us that Hindoo, as well as Englishman or Teuton, are descended from a common stock of Arian an cestors. But the Hindoo has been enervated by clif t :P!: harassed by wars, oppressed by bad government, i 8 morally by caste, and physically by want of coneta . tion, until these germs have been almost extif h ir''' P eriod The consequence is that India has never within te or of history been a nation. It has been an agg' c r e a potisms, of vari ous tribes, distinct communities, which now one, now the other, shot and pPgtty° ephemeral im portanee or decayed with the accidentsuoodf ttnheohdoeurge,newraitchythoef success of some military adventurersbe ours to found his heir. Let us hope that it may some thing more lasting, and to show that as our power is now rom of a rival, from the without a rival, or the shadowf the Irrawaddy to the I Hima layas to Cape Comorin and power, to be exercised firmly and wisely it is a beneficent of the millions over whom Providence ienince of the West h as roeuoved impediments wisely for theffl ooauthority. I have a vises= °ion India— alofenttrsadteo has placed the consequent increaserity English energy where the science ,„ prospe communication — wh e re has di,,, ; ff r ed ecii - nulate improvement in every district and aweicatiae4native population, with expanding ideas and - .° • telligence are taught by the education of schools proving in and of events, of books, and railways, to know the d m to know one another ; and are gradually trained in a nagement of their own local affairs for those of a wider area; so that India may at length have what it has never yet had—a political life—and at length b what it has never yet been—a nation. You may say that this is a vision, and this rauclz io certain, oir, tlag _ reith er You nor I will ,live to goo ft fully realised ; but I reply that it is soy a Government to have a policy, a high and distine, distant aim, and I think I may safely say that this is flu aim in which every enlightened Ilindoo and Mussulman„ as well'as every enlightened Englishman, may cordially unite with us, and juin us in praying, in the wurds of the inspired Psalmist, " that our works may be so done in truth and equity as to stand fast for ever and ever." If, sir, we have succeeded even tolerably in restoring our finances and conjuring away that spectre deficit which rode upon us like the grim nightmare hag of the old Norse Saga, I re • joke in it, not so much for the immediate relief, as because I hope and believe that it is an earnest of further improve ment. If six months have,sufficed to get rid of £6,000,000 of deficit, I see nothing of which the Government of India need despair, with energy and decision ; with prudence and clear insight. Success, like failure, is contagious, and in politics, as in war, the moral causes are to the physical, as the great Napoleon said, as 10 to 1. Therefore, sir, in addressing ourselves to further reform the word impossible' shall be banished from our vocabulary, and we shall succeed, because we have succeeded already, and because we are determined to succeed again. And now, sir, nothing remains but to thank you and the Council for the patience with which you have listened to me, and to stun up in two words the result which I had laid befo re you. The deficit was £5,868,718. We have met £3,599,750 of it by reductions, £2,008,864 by improved r evenue, and £500,000 by transfer to local budgets. Therefore, T have a clear surplus of £239,896 of income over expenditure, including in my expenditure £1,300,000 on account of railway interest, which is properly chargeable to capital. My cash balance in India on the Ist of May next will be £12,850,000, which is higher than was expected, partly because the receipts from opium have been large, and partly because recent reductions of expenditure are beginning to tell. After allowing for the payment of £950,000 of prize money, and - for an expenditure of £500,000 per month, or £6,000,000 in the course of :the year, upon railways, it is estimated that we shall arrive at the Ist of May, 1862, with a cash balance of £14,264,302. I shall want no loan, therefore, as far as I can see at present, unless something altogether unexpected should occur, which I have no reason to anticipate. There is no danger of the railways now in progress being suspended, though. strict economy must be enforced in making the money go as far as possible in opening additional miles of rail way, and not in costly works or ornamental stations. These results, let me once more repeat, have been ob tained mainly by enforcing economy. On the continued enforcement of that economy the future welfare of Ir - mainly depends. I have been careful, as far as possibY adopt no figure in my budget which was not based on, tive facts, and on the estimates et the resporl!Ne ant ties. As regards the Military Estimates, which aty most important, Colonel Balfour and his colleagues in the Military Finance Department have gone through theirs, in minute detail, and pledge themselves for their sufficiency, provided the orders already passed by the Government are properly carried out. That is our affair, and you may de pend upon it that, with the welfare of India and our own credit at stake, we shall take good care that we are promptly obeyed. I anticipate no difficulty, for I have always heard that in the ranks of the Indian service, as in those of the army, there is a noble spirit which makes men obey distinct orders punctually —nay, cheerfully, even in cases when the orders may have been contrary to their own judgment ; but in this case I believe there is not a man in India whose judgment does not go with us, and who does sot feel that in largely reducing the Native Army we are following the, path not only of financial reform but of political prudence. With this conviction the eye of Government will be on every officer who has anything to do with the realisation of these, our first properly framed and duly considered Budget, Estimates, and he will find us prompt to recognise merit, not prompt to accept excuses or to admit of failure. I have nothing more to add. As I said at the commencement, I say now, there is no eloquence on such an occasion as this but that of facts. An oratorical triumph I.clo not seek, 1. am not an orator by nature, and if I were I should disdain, in presence of such great interests, to resort to artifice, or to appeal to anything but reason. But there are my facts. Take them, sift them. scrutinize them, for it is my convic tion that they ate solid and substantial facts and not shams. It is not for me to anticipate the verdict of public opinion on the policy of the Government of which I am a member, but this I will say, that I await it with confidence. I may be mistaken, but my belief is that impartial men who un derstand Indian affairs will, both hero and in England, accept the results submitted to you to-day as, on the whole, not discreditabl e t o L or d C ann i ng ' s G overnment, and not discouraging as regards the prospects of this great Eastern Empire, which is,—or ought to be, and by the blessing of God shall be—the brightest jewel in the Crown of our be loved Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria. N. BLONDIN. Yesterday M. Blondin - again astonished and ter rified his audience at the Crystal Palace with a repetition and an addition to his performances of Saturday last. The attendance of visitors on this occasion was not nearly so numerous as on his first appearance. The cold and gloomy weather may have had something to do with this, and very pos sibly the rather general fear entertained that M. Blondin must one day fall, perhaps had its in fluence in keeping people' away. But we firmly believe that if there is any feeling of apprehen sion entertained on the latter ground it is as ground less as it can well be towards a man who follows such a perilous vocation. Tremendous and really terrible as are some of the feats, Blondin himself looks upon them as mere nothings, and we may also add that he has practised every conceivable method in which he could fall from the rope and catch it with his hands, so that in the event of a real slip, which he considers all but an impossi• bility, he would be perfectly prepared to save him self. It is with a view to such a possible contin gency that the floor beneath the rope is kept clear, that in case of losing balance he might at once drop his pole. The space is not kept open, as some persons believe, in order that Blondin him self may have a clear fall free of the visitors. Yesterday, in his Indian chief's dress, he went through his usual feats, turning summersaults backwards and forwards, standing on his head and lying on his back, with as much ease and steadi ness as if the field of his operations were as broad as Cheapside . After keeping every one in a tremor while he walked the rope blindfolded and in a sack, pretending to miss his step and staggering and faltering in a way that seemed horrible to look at, he p e a a r t e d last in t r h e e t i red, and dress nf after a short chef de cuisine, andabsence w i r t e h a pa heavy and rather bulky stove on his back walked down the rope to make and cook an omelette in the centre. While walking, the stove, though large. awkward, and heavy —weighing nearly 501 b.— seemed no manner of hindrance, but getting it o ff' his back and securin g it to the rope seemed a dreadfully perilous task. For this purpose he had to lower himself with the utmost care till seated on the rope and then make fast his balance pole. With this secured, he had then to free him self from the stove, and not only to balance himself without the pole, but to balance the stove toe. For a time the audience scarcely breathed, as stove, Blondin, and balance pole were all swaying more or less widely from side to side. At last, to the relief of every one, the obdurate cuisine was fixed, and, seating himself down coo lly, w ith ou t balance pole ee then e made his ing, by first lighting his fire. o w r id a e ny d t e h p i t n h g b b e u n t ea t t h h e , B r o lo p n e d b in e t p w r e ocH en He the shells omelette, breaking the eggs, aad casting .f away beneath with as much sangfroid as at an him ded sional, and, one being cooked, proce e d e d t o make etelfhaisncdoothke atenor so d s t i eh n de a r r h . y s voi omelette c h h eel e ne n t bt d eo r t e h s s withewr e . r ti e t he re e s a t d o o y d h oe de xterityn tookthe of r a o frompp r e a ft n ehs. d e inexhaustible stove, which seemed to contain every thing, plates and dishes, and a bottle of wine, and placing them all on a tray, lowered them into the centre transept for the consumption of such visitors as chose to partake of these highly cooked dainties. There was another short anxious interval while Blondin got the stove on his back and resumed his pole, and then, walking quickly back along the rope, took leave of his audience amid loud cheers. On Monday next he crosses the rope with his feet in large baskets. The rope is now being erected for him in the grounds, to pass along the terrace, and through. the fountains while playing. Wh o goes there ?" said an Irish sentry of the British Legion at St. Sebastian. "A friend," was the re ply. "Then stand wh ere y ou are , f or , by the powers, you're the first I've met w ith i n thi s murtherin' country?' - - - --- - -- --- ---- ---- diseases, but Du Barry's delicious Revalenta Arabica Food a d [ADVERTISEMENT.] --Medicine always aggravates chronicoo. invariably cures them in a very short time. We extractvalids. few out of many thousands of gratitude from invalids. Cure 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of cramps, daily vomitings. Cure 26,415. Dr. Harvey consumption. and debility. Cure 39,628. 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