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All persons by whom notices of objection to voters were Posted at the Money-order Office, Strand, on the 24th of August, 1853, Are requested to communicate their names and addresses, with the numbers of such Notices, to M. E. peacock , Esq . . Solicitor to her Majesty's Post-office, London. o -1 1- of le LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1854. No. 19,172.] [PRIOE SD. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. reference to the ordnance survey of Scotland is correct, where he is reported to have stated that "no scale would be adopted exceeding 20 inches to the mile." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had no intention to fix any limit to the maximum of the scale. HOUSE OF LORDS--(YESTERDAY.) , - The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool sack at 5 o'clock. Od Od Od Od kl ; ce, rk, d; nay ,he ire 7 EAST INDIA HOUSE, IsT Mlacn, 1854. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That the QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT appointed to be held at this Hosa oft WEDNESDAY,the 22d inst., at Eleven o'clock in the doom, is made SPECIAL -at the desire of Ni n e Pro p rietors 'of Ant India Etta, agreeably to the following letter, viz.:— " London, 23d February, 1854. "Sts Jams C. 3121:ria.i., Secretary, stc„, &c., East India House. " Sig,—We, the undersigned Proprietors of East India Stock. re quest the Qtiarterly Court to be'held on 22d proximo may be made Special, for the purpose of taking into consideration th e f o ll o win g motion to be submitted by .31r. Robert Browne:— " Motion—' That referring to the papers laid before the Court of Pmprleters,.in accordance with the resolution of the Quarterly Court • Octoberjaet, regarding i)le claim of the Calcutta Steam Company for the public services rendered by their steamer the "-India," it is the opinion of this Court that those services should be acknowledged by payment of the sum claimed, namely, 20,0001.' " We have the honour to be; Sir, your very obedient servants. "J. MACKILLOP. " W. H. •MARTIN. J. R. Ewes. G. G. CAMPBELL. Tao s . DANT. E. MACKINTOS:i. Taos. WLLKINSOM, Major. ,J. W. FREBLIFIELD." . W. 8. Bonier. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. OCIETY for die DISCHARGE and RELIEF riUe of PERSONS IMPRISONED for SMALL DEB IS through . out ZNGLAND and WALES, Established 1772. President —The BASIL of BONNEY. Vice-President. - Lord KENYON. • Treasurer.—BENIAMIN . BOND CASWELL, Eng., M.P., F.R.S. auditor.--CaYsl Cigas, Esq. At a Making </Governors, held in Craven-street, on WEDNESDAY, • the lit day of March, 1554, the cases of . 18 Petitioners were consi ' dared, 'of which 9 were approved, 5 rejected, .1 inadmissible, and 3 deferred for inquiry. Since the Meeting held on the lit of Feb., SIXTEEN DEBTORS, of whom 12 had WiVes and $6 Children, have been discharged from the•frisons of England and Wales ; the expense of whose liberation, inclading every charge connected with the society, was 1441.85. 6d., Sad the following , • BEETWACTIONS "ECM= SINCE. TEE LAST EXPORT : John PePY I . Zed. • • •••••• -• •• -....... —A £5 0 0 • . Lord Sherburne, per Messrs. HOare ... 3 0 0 ' Benefactions are received by Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., Trea- Sorer, I(o. 1, Brick-court, Temp.e ; also by the following Bankers : --Messrs, Cocks. Drtraimonds, terries, Soares, Veres • and by the Secretary,. No. 7, CreTep.street, Strand, where the b o oks may be *left by tliaaa'whb'streinclkued te,sapport the 4)harity, and where ths.Stcisty meet On the first Wednesday In every month. • JOSEM I.UNN, Secretary. OND-ON . SOIPTH-WESTERN .11.41 • • RAILWAY. • VATRRI4OO. STATION, REFRESHMENT ROOMS. • The • ** Outtpap,y,aro, prepared to .receive Tenders. .r • • • et beer Teeonteof.the Refreshment-rooms. 1.1,4 apajiVraf. , at" the Waterloo Station: ; - •• "I **Tuts/. r Rehealiment-rooms," stating amount oftsid and- refire isei risifectatilliti, sellt - be received by the thdaiskiked not'later :than 40 a.m. on Thursday, the 16th March • hiet.3'Ofirhesii particulare,se to terms way be ebtained. The ,Dlrectore du not bind thesuselyea to accept tht lowest, or any taiga. By order of the Directors, L. CROMBIE, Secretary. Yert-road Offices, March 6, 1864. • . URSUAITT 'Decree of. the High Court of ChancerYi nisi* in a- cause; TIIOSf AS , BOYS TERRIS •IfLIZABETH ;1111ILLINfi, 'the. creditors of EDWARD ' . ' , formerly of. Number, 1, Ore it, James-street, Bed-. • Ard l row ,to the. county •of Middlesex, and late of. Branswick . • ROMS, : Camberwell. „In , the county of *Surrey, and of Token , hnuse-yard; in the City.' of London," and' also of Castle "Eve Villa, raetatouc,ln the county, "of Dorset, Gentleitian, the testator in • thepleadinge ) in. tldi eaninfluunedqwhci died in. or about the month iit , Deceibbet.lBs3; arelry their Welters,' be or before the twenty ' ! Iburth: day: of Atka. -111104. ,to, come in -and prove their debts - ae ceatiliaittsthe Chnipben of Ibis Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart, ET r o.-12,.01d-sqttere thicOlo'l•iiM,lliddlesea, or in default thereof will he .Pereiliptorlly excluded front the benefit of the said " Irrfitay; the Midday of March; - 1854;' at 12 o'clock at, noon, at the AlaidChernbers, -is appointed for Hearing and adjudicating upon the D4ted this. 18th day of February, 1854. ' ALFRED MALL. Chief Clerk. Fri:tiler information, if !squired, may be• obtained on application to Mr. E. Benham, -NO. 18, FAset-atreet, Strand, Solicitor for the , plaintiff, to whom, and also to. Messrs. Boltdn, Merriman, and Dun . min& of No. 28, Austin -Friars, London, !Solicitors for the defendant, E. Mullins, the widow and exectitrix of the, testator, notice of the claims, When duly entered, Omit be given. ' ~, , • . - • R. • ALBERT .SMITErS . 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Also, by the same Author, A TREATISE ON ASIUMA and DISEASES of the lIEART London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. THE BEST FIT WEARS BEST. " Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy ; rich, net gaudy ; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.' —SuairspEaitE. HEMMENT and CO., Practical Tailors,l3. Cornhill. WE lE. DAYS. —l s.i Direct Trains ft•iim the Boats marked t Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station 1 every quarter of an hour. BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL, on lowing Trains from the Fenehurch-sti Wr DAYS. SUNDAYS. Fen- 5 r `g Fen- 4 church E '5 ca church '6' .f. Street 4 a/ cS -z Street. 4 S G 7 tl -- 94 10% • 11 i 2 - 2 3,4 4U 514 Passages marked * are run direct Fore Cabin. Saloon. Po or Prom Gravesend and .. le. 2d. ~ Gravesend and Blackwall or Woolwich Between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d, BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, lb. Os.; Six 1 Three Months, V. Os. ; to be had of the Collector , Packets; or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. March Ist, 1554. I. .• Os. 10d. I. .. Os. Bd. Months, 3/. Os. ; rs on board the FACTS . PLAINLY STATED.—Every one ad mits the amount of care and expense necessary for the maintenance of a fashionable and complete wardrobe. The economy in price, the astonishing variety, and the artistic skill observed in the productions of E. Moses and Sox, has procured an universal popularity for their Establishment and its Branches. The Order Department is the most efficient business in the Tailor ing Trade, and associates such talent, care, correctness, expedition, and economy as cannot be Imitated ; its general application includes every fashionable order of attire ; and with the most absolute success provides every article of dress required by all xlasses at every season of the year. The Hosiery and Ladles' Clothing Department is distinguished by a magnitude and novelty of stock which it is impossible to describe. The richest materials and the most skilful execution is observable on one hand. and the most elegant and serviceable articles on the other; but in every instance the prices are very much less than are usually charged. The Hats, Caps, Boots, and Shoes, &e., which are now offered by samples of manufacture, E. MoSES an .I Soli, are the most elegant and are unquestionably the best goods ever pres ente d , though the prices are exclusively economical. The Wholesale Department and the General Outfitting Se flans at the Establishment of E. MOSES and Sow is highly advantageouste- - merc hants, shippers, and all classes of emigrants. Time Goods are - mor e suitable for use or for sale than any which can be obtained; and the very a zonomic al p rices char g ed b y E . Mons and Sow are a source of profit to all purchasers. grfard the CAUTION. —E. 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ON TRUE dr FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors In relation to the Treatthent and Cure of the Impuissant and Sexual Hypochondriacs, Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. I'ov/bleb - is added, an ESSAY en SEXUAL DEBILITY, by the Editor. "Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi eal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his sower to correct." —London Medical Gazette, May3o, 1851. The tribe of 'Quiet Sympa thisers,'and' Medical Friends,'are mercilessly exposed ; mid if this book could find its way into the hands of those who suffer from the com plaint of which it treats, We aro satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good."—Modlcal Circular, Jane 16. 1852. London: IL Balliere, 219. Regent-street. TOZEATTS COPAHINE-MEGE or Saccharatt, C tPSULES, approved by the French College of Physicians, successfttlly administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and acknowledged by them to be the best remedy for the cure of certain diseases (see "Lancet " 6th Nov., 1852.) Price, per 100, 4s. 6d. ' • 50, 2s . 9d.—To be had of the Inventor, Gabriel Jozeau, French Chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, whose name is printed on the Government stamp ; and all the principal chemists. GENERAL SCREW STEAM OOMPANY. A special meeting of the General Screw Steam Company took place yesterday to bring before the shareholders the question of abandoning the contract for the conveyance of mails to India, and also for obtaining their assent to an arrangement with the Postmaster-General for the trans mission of future mails to Australia. The chairman (Mr. J. 11. Ellis) stated that the reasons for recommending a surrender of the Indian contract arose from the general alteration in affairs since the commencement of that service. The advanced prices of fuel, provisions, and labour had so seriously interfered with their prospects that it had been deemed prudent to suggest the proposed alternative. The revenue derived from the trade exceeded the . original estimates, and, if the expenditure could have been regu lated in proportion, the shareholders, instead of being ad vised to relinquish the service, would now have been receiving a dividend. The terms of the contract, however, had always been considered onerous. It was evident the members of the Government were opposed to the principle of subsidising companies for the conveyance of mails, and, as they had declined to adopt any suggestion offeredin this case for the amelioration of the pressure experienced, the course recommended appeared to be the safest. With re gard to the negotiation carried on with the Postmaster- . General in relation to the Australian mails, the board had at length obtained an arrangement which, it was thought, would be, received as satisfactory. Tho proposed service is to be every alternate month from Southampton to Melbourne via the Cape of Good Hope, the company to go direct, if they please, and to employ whatever vessels in their fleet they choose. The only restriction is with reference to time, 65 days being stipulated for the voyage out to Melbourne, with an additional five days for despatching the mails to Adelaide and Sydney. For every day in excess of these 70 days a penalty is to be paid of 301. The port of departure for the colonies is to be Melbourne, the homeward route being via Cape Horn, and 67 days being allowed for it. Ac cording to the present postal route, the company are to receive 6d. for every ordinary letter not exceeding half an ounce, and so on in proportion, and for every book pack age not exceeding half a poune3d. ; but no charge is to be made for newspapers. If the Australian rate of postage shall hereafter be reduced, then the company are to re ceive 3d. per letter, and a halfpenny on newspapers. Should the result of the arrangement be favourable, a monthly service may then be entered upon. The contract is not for a fixed period, but the postmaster may give 12 months' notice for its termination, If determined in the first year, the company are to be paid a penalty of 30,0001., in the second year 25,000/., in the third 20,0001., in the fourth 15,0001., and in the fifth 10,0001. The final clause stipulates that all the mails by the two Capes shall be conveyed by the boats of the company. In concluding his address the chairman mentioned that the Golden Fleece is in the em ployment of the Government, and that some of the other ships will in all probability be taken up. The vessels re turning from India could be put upon the Australian line. A great number of the proprietors, while agreeing with the views of'the chairman with regard to the Indian contract, urged that the route itself should not be abandoned. With respect to the Australian contract there was little discussion, but it seemed to be considered that the shareholders should be put in possession of their real financial situation before adopting any conclusion. The chairman explained that when the next accounts are presented they will not be found so discouraging as has been apprehended. Asser tions have been circulated of a loss on the Indian service of 100,0001., but, despite the difficulties they had been compelled to encounter, it had not reached that amount. An amendment was then moved for a committee of investigation ; but, as it was announced on behalf of the board that they should receive it as a vote of censure, it was ultimately withdrawn. Finally, the following resolutions were passed unanimously. In connection with the last the chairman, in answer to a ques tion, said that a negotiation was pending for the sale of six of their ships, but he was not in a position at present to enter in,to the particulars. He intimated, however, that the flees of the company is properly appreciated, and that, if the proposal in question is arranged, the shareholders will obtain a high price for their vessels : - - " That the surrender to her Majesty's Government of the contract for the conveyance of -the mails -to and from India via the Cape of Good Hope, is sanctioned by this meeting. " That this meeting approves of the negotiation for a con tract with the Postmaster-General for the conveyance of the mails to and from the Australian colonies hilt the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn in every alternate month; and authorises the commencement of that service, and such exten sions of it as the board may think advisable. " That the board are requested to take such other measures as have or may become necessary in consequence of the changes now to be made in the employment of the fleet ; so that the company's property may be either realised or employed beneficially." [ADVERTISEMENT.] --SIGHT AND HEARING. —39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel. = The Royal Exhibition. -- A valuable, newly invented, very small powerful waistcoat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one mile wad a half distant ; they answer every purpose on the race-course, at the opera houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Telescopes—A new and most important invention in telescopes, possessing such extraordinary powers that some, 3} inches, with an extra eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope, weighing only 3 ounces, can be seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every other kind for the waistcoat-pocket. and are of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and race-course glasses, with wonderful power; an object can be clearly seen, from 14 to 16 miles distant. Deafness —New Discovery—The Organic Vi brator, an extraordinary powerful and newly-invented instrument, for Deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass anything- of the kind that has been, or probably ever can be, produced. Being of the same colour as the s ki n , it is not perceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public as semblies ;. the unpleasant sen sa ti on o f s i ng i ng no i s es in the -ears entirely removed ; and.it affords all the assist• wee that posSibly could be desired.--39,.,Albemarle-street, 11.000417: Observe, opposite the Ye* Uotel. The Earl of HARROWBY gave notice of his inten tion on an early day to call attention to tha.proceediugs of the Sanitary Commission, particularly, regarded the metropolis. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY gave notice that on Friday he would move for the continuation of the papers in reference to the religious disabilities of the Christian subjects of the Sultan. The Earl of HARDWICKE drew attention to the imperfect ventilation of the house, and expressed a hope that some steps would be taken to remedy the detect. (At this time the house was so completely filled with fog that it was difficult to distinguish many of the peers present.) The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented several petitions from Scotland against the endowment of the Coliege of Maynooth. CONSOLIDATION OF THE CRIMINAL LAW. Lord ST. LEOTARDS, in rising to ask what were the intentions of the Governnient with respect to the bills for the consolidation of the criminal law, took occa sion to trace the history of the various efforts which had been made to deal with this important subject. He said that the first commission which was issued for this pur pose originated in 1831, with instructions to the com missioners to inquire and . report whether it was ex pedient that the statute and the common unwritten law relating to criminal offences should be consoli dated. The commissioners reported that such a consoli dation would be extremely beneficial. Lord Melbourne, then Secretary of State, authorised the commission ers to proceed with their labours. And, in pursuance of the duty imposed upon them, the commissioners did digest the statutes and the unwritten - law, and in 1835 they fornoikkwo digests, which might be readily turned into acts Of Parliament, one relating to criminal offences and their punishinent, and th% other relating, to procedure. In the same year another iiel - of commissioners was appointed, and the result of their labours was that about the year 1847 a bill was prepared for consolidating the statutes relating to offences against the person. Mat ters thus rested until Lord Brougham again brought the subject before the house in the shape of a couple of bills, which were ultimately withdrawn in order to have the opinion of the judges upon the desirability of the changes proposed„ He (Lord St. Leonards) being of opinion that it was quite possible to codify the law without issuing another commission, had introduced a bill with that object. The bill was read a second time and referred to a select committee, where, after long and patient investigation, it was agreed to. As chairman of the committee he enclosed the bill to the judges, asking them to read and favour him with their opinion upon it ; and it would be in the iecollection of the house that in the commencement of the present session he had com municated to them that the result of those answers was that it would not be desirable to make a formal code of the written and unwritten law relating to criminal offences. He wished, therefore, to know what her Ma jesty's Government proposed to do with regard to the Criminal Law Amendment and Consolidation Bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR admitted the difficulties which beset the subject, but he considered that before the bill was abandoned they should have a select com mittee to reconsider it, with the judges' opinions and their report upon it to the house. If it was the opinion of such a committee that it was idle to proceed, he could only say that they had done the best they could, and that they had abandoned it only because it was found that it would turn out impracticable. He feared that such would be the result, but he did not like to abandon the attempt to legislate upon a subject which had occu pied the attention of the public for more than twenty years, without making a final inquiry as to whether the circumstances would justify such a course. His inten tion, therefore, with respect to the bill, was to move that the bill with the judges' opinions should be referred to a select committee, who should report upon the sub ject to the house. Lord BROUGHAM could not but express regret at the course which he saw was likely to be adopted upon this question. He pointed out the several decisions in favour of a codification of the criminal law at which the house had already arrived, and contended that the mere opinions of the judges ought not to nullify all the testimony which had been collected on the other side. Upon most subjects touching the administration of the law in any given case and to any given facts, and touching the rights of parties according to that law, he should bow to the decision of the judges with implicit deference, but it was a very different thing when they went out of their province, and when they entered upon that of legislation, and gave their opinions as to what the law ought to be, and what changes would make it better, and what changes would make it worse, he had not the same respect for these learned persons. When he looked back to not a very short life of legislation, and when he reflected on the various measures that be had, at different times promoted in both Houses of Parlia ment, and many of which were now, as he thought hap pily, passed into law, he did not recollect any bill for the amendment of the law which he had at various times introduced into Parliament that had received the coun tenance of the' heads of the profession of the law, and that had not rather met with their very decided, though not always very loud, disapproval. He saw, with feel ings of regret, that the people of this country were likely to have taken from them, just as they fancied they held them in their grasp, the inestimable advantages which would arise from a codification of the criminal law. He could not agree with the opinion of the judges, and he did not think, after the repeated testimony of commission after commission, that they should give up the idea of a consolidatio n o f the law. He believed that every one of the judges disapproved of the changes which he effected in the bankrupt law in 1831. He believed that only two of them could bear to hear mentioned his Evidence Bill, for allowing parties to cases to be exa mined. All the judges, with the exception of one, were against that measure, and only two treated it with any degree of toleration. With reference to the objections which had been raised as to the difficulty of defining offences, one noble and learned lord said he preferred the common law definition of larceny to the statute one. He (Lord Brougham) should like to know what the fifteen common-law judges would say the common-law definition of that offence was. He was sure, if they had no communication together before the answer was given, t w h i e d y el s y ho d u iff erldhingorn have from theth fifteenotemhersof h definitions, theition iaw meantseachone by larceny. The LORD CHANCELLOR announced his inten tion this session to introduce a procedure act, and the house adjourned. HOUSE OF C OMMONS —(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. SECOND READINGS. The Great North of Scotland Railway Bill, and the Stamford and Kettering Road Bill, were read a second time. On the motion that the Kensington Improvement Bill be read a second time, Mr. RICARDO moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. BOUVERIE thought it would be very dangerous to accede to the second reading of the bill. Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR said the objections stated against the bill had no real foundation, and he thought, as the inhabitants of Brompton were in favour of the bill, it ought to be now read a second time and sent to a committee. Lord R. GROSVENOR thought, as no principle of public law was infringed by this bill, the house ought not to refuse the bill going through a second reading. The house then divided ou the question, whea there appeared— For the second reading ....... 53 vor the amendment ................... 158- Majority against second reading... --105 So the bill was lost. Mr. FORTESCUE, the new member for Louth, took the oaths and his seat. Mr. OLIVEIRA presented a petition from Inverness, very numerously signed, in favour of a reduction of the duties ou foreign wines. Sir J. SHELLEY presented a petition from West minster, praying for a reduction of the duties on post carriages and horses. Lord D. STUART presented petitions with a similar prayer from the inhabitants of St. Pancras and Oxford street. General BUCKLEY presented petitions from differ ent places in Wales, praying lor the closing of beer shops on the Lord's-day. Sir B. HALL presented a petition from Marylebone against the Poor Removal Bill. SUSPENDED WRITS. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that, on Thursday first, he should move a further suspension of the writs where commissions had been issued. PETITIONS. The following petitions were presented by Mr. H. W. WICKHAM :—From the guardians of the poor of the Bradford Union, West Riding of Yorkshire, praying for an amendment in the Vaccination Act, making it compulsory on the vaccinator to make a due return of successful vaccination to the registrar of the district ; also three petitions from the inhabitants of Buttershaw, West Riding of Yorkshire—one praying for an alteration in the distribution of the revenues of the Church, so that all incomes of from 4,5001. to 15,0001. per annum be done away with, and the capitular sylitern entirely abolished ; one praying that the Oaths Bill may not pass into a law ; and one that inns and beer-shops be entirely closed on the Sunday, except to bona fide travellers and lodgers. CHART - 8 OF THE BLACK SEA. Mr. FRENCH asked the First Lord of the Adnii ralty whether the important charts and documents re lating to the navigation of the Black Sea, brought by the late Doctor Clarke, of Cambridge, and deposited at the Admiralty many 'years ago, had been made use of. Sir J. - GRAHAM replied that the subject was still under consideration. ORDNANCE - SURVEYS. Colonel BLAIR asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether that part of the statement which he - .made in RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Mr. LAXARD, adverting to the statement of Lord J. Russell that new proposals had been made to Russia, wished to know if, in event of the Russian troops having withdrawn from the Principalities, Russia would revert to the status quo ante belluin—that was, would the old treaties between Russia and Turkey remain still in force. Lord J. RUSSELL said the Emperor of Russia had been requested to evacuate the principalities, because it was a wrongful occupation ; but the • question of esta blishing peace between Turkey and Russia would still remain a matter for negotiation after the evacuation had took place. Mr. LAYARD complained that this was no answer to his question, but he gave notice that on an early day he would bring the question under the notice of the house. THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT. The house having resolved itself into a committee of ways and means, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, on pro ceeding to lay before the committee the state of the finances of the country said—With reference, sir, to the gravity of the circumstances in which the country is at present placed, it has been the opinion of her Majesty's Government that they would best discharge their duty to this house by sub mitting to the committee at this unusually early period of the session the financial statement for the year, and an ex• planation of those measures which they think it requisite to adopt in order to meet the exigencies of the public ser vice.. If, air, in any other respect my position is one far less agreeable than that which I had the honour to occupy upon the last occasion, at least lean promiso the committee that it will not be necessary for me to make the same ex travagant demand upon their patience to-night which for merly it was my misfortune to do. (Hear, hear.) But her Majesty's Government have thought that it was wise to take this early period of submitting these questions to the committee—first of all, because in that manner we most fully recognise the title of the House of Commons to be made aware of the views of the Government with refer ence to the mode of meeting an unusually large expendi ture ; next, because we believe it well that foreign coun tries should see that the earnestness of the nation in the course upon which it has embarked may be measured by the promptitude with which it proceeds to supply the means necessary for carrying out that course ; and lastly, because it is but fair and just to the people of England, upon 'whose opinions and convictions the course of her Majesty's Government must ultimately depend, that they should be made practically aware that the measures we have adopted, and are about to adopt, under the gravest conviction of duty, are measures which must necessarily entailthe disagreeable consequences of a serious addition to the public burdens. (Hear.) Now the first part, which is also the most satisfactory portion of the task which I have to perform, is that I should submit to the committee, in compa rison with the estimates which I made last April, the pre sent actual state of the revenue and expenditure of the country. In speaking, however, of the actual state of the public income and expenditure, the committee will please to recollect that we have not yet actually reached the close of the financial year, and therefore, although the figures which I shall state to you, including as they do the actual accounts for about eleven months of the year, may be re lied upon as substantially accurate, yet with respect to the remaining month they are only in the nature of estimates, and they may not exactly correspond with the accounts, when they come to be presented before you. On the 18th of last April I ventured to estimate the income of the country as follows : —The Customs revenue was taken at 20,080,0001., without, of course, any allowance at that time for the reduction about to be made. The actual re ceipts of the Customs duties, notwithstanding the reduc. tions which have been made, to which I will presently more particularly allude, have been 20,600,0001. (Cheers.) The Excise, which was estimated at 14,640,0104., without any allowance being made for the repeal of the soap duty —notwithstanding the repeal of that duty—has realised the sum of 15,107;0001. (Cheers.) "Stamps" were esti mated at 6,700,0001.; and although under that head relief has been given to the public upon several material points , still, instead of producing, as was expected, 6,700,0001., they have realised 6,960,0001. (Cheers.) The yield under the head of "'faxes" was estimated at 3,250,000/., it has produced 3,178,0001. But that difference, small though it is, does not indicate even that small diminution in tax able so bjects. Mr. DISRAELI—Is that the return for the twelve months ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER —llls for the twelve months, and is made up of eleven months' accounts, and of one month estimated. That small diminution to which I have adverted is to be accounted for simply by the fact that the year which ended April 5, 1853, was the first year in which the new form of house duty had attained its full operation, and, in consequence, in respect of that year, the Exchequer was credited with a considerable amount of arrears carried over from the former year. For the present year no such credit is taken, and the apparent de ficiency may bo therefore accounted for upon that ground. The income tax, which was estimated at 5,550,0001., will realise 5,700,0001. The Post-office revenue, which was taken at 900,0001., will produce 1,042,0001. (Cheers.) The income for Crown lands almost exactly corresponds with the sum estimated. The estimate was 390,0001. ; the statement I have now to make shows that the receipts un der that:hea,d amount to 391,0001. Miscellaneous receipts, which were taken at 320,0001., have reached 503,0001. ; and the receipts for old stores, taken at 460,0001. last April, have amounted to 481,0001. On the 18th of last April I was asked by the hon. member for Montrose, what saving to the public revenue would probably arise from the mea sures which were then in progress with respect to the re duction and conversion of a portion of the debt. I stated in reply that it was hardly possible to name the sum with respect to the accounts of the then current year, but that I thought the saving by the measure might safely, and in the worst event, be taken at 100,0001. I will not now de viate from the general course of my statement, but will revert to that subject at a later period. (Hear, hear.) I will now present to you some of the various items of the estimates as it was made last April, and of the joint ac count and estimate for the present year, which I am now enabled to submit to the committee. The estimated re venue last April was 52,990,0001. The accounts which I now present to you, together with the estimate for the re maining month not included in the account, is 54,025,000/. (cheers); so that there is an improvement upon the estimate that day of no less than 52,990,0001. (Re newed cheers.) Upon the other hand, the expenditure for which the house provided during the last session of Parliament has not reached its utmost limit. The expenditure, as then estimated, reached the amount of 52,183,0001. ; the expenditure for the twelve months, as I take it now, although it has been materially swollen by measures connected with pending military operations, will not, I think, go beyond 51,171,0001. So that while the income of the year stands at 1,035,0001. more than that which was estimated, the expenditure stands at 1,012,0001. less than was anticipated. (Cheers.) And, so far as we are able to estimate the actual excess of income over expenditure for the year, which will; however, only be correctly declared when the account is struck after the sth of April, I should be disposed to place the overplus at the present time at 2,854,0001. (Cheers.) But, as the last year was not an ordinary year, and was one in which Parliament adopted conclusions of great importance with respect to a variety of financial measures, I think the com mittee will expect of me that I should state to it more par ticularly, but at the same time as succinctly as I can, the results of the most important of these measures. I adverted just now to the case of the Customs duties. Now, the total amount of Customs duties which were repealed in the last session by the House of Commons may be stated in round numbers at 1,500,0001. Ido not include in that estimate the reduction of duties which were enacted in the last session, but which have not yet taken effect, but I confine myself strictly to those reductions of Customs duties which took immediate effect, and they, as I have said, amounted in round numbers to 1,500,0001. The ex act amount, after allowing for a sum of 16,0001. of aug mentation due to the alteration of the duty on spirits, was 1,408.3001. Now, there have been some circumstances affecting a portion of the Customs duties so unfavourably, that I cannot avoid alluding to them, in particular as re spec. the case of one branch of the Customs duties, which is not of first-rate importance, and yet not an in considerable revenue is derived from currants. I may say it is not so much lowered as it has been almost annihi lated. That simple article of consumption, as it appears to us, yielded in 1851-2 a sum of 342,000/. ; in 1852-3 it yielded 271,000/. ; and in 1853-4 it produced but 113,0001. The revenue derived from this article is about one third what it was three years ago, not owing either to diminished disposition, or diminished capacity on the part of the public to consume, but due to the great and disastrous contraction of the supply in consequence of the blight which has affected the vine in the East. But al though this has been the. case, and although the measure relating to the tea duty has been brought to an issue under circumstances far from favourable, still when we look minutely and exactly at the case of the Customs revenue, it is found to stand thus :—The reductions of duty, as I have stated, which took effect in the years 1853.4 were 10483,000/. The receipts from Customs duties ia 1852-3 were 20,396,000/. ; in 1853-4 the receipts from Customs duties were 20,600,000 1 „ showing an increase of 201,0001. in the actual receipts, after a remission of duties to the amount o f 1 , 483,000/. (Loud cheers.) With respect to the tea duties I hope the house, notwithstanding the unfavour able circumstances which have occurred, and the state of disturbance which has been prolonged in China—l hope, I say, the house does not repent of the large and liberal mea sure which it adopted last year on the subject. (Hear, h e ar.) Last year the house gave assent to an immediate reduction of the tea duty amounting to 4id. in the pound. The amount of relief afforded to the consumer by that re duction has been not less than 950,0001. I estimated from the nature of the consumption, and the elasticity which it was expected the article would show, that the whole loss to the revenue against the relief of 950,0001. would be a sum of 366,000/. Now, I think the committee will see that it is satisfactory that the loss to the revenue is no greater than that which at the time I es*nated it to be. I took it at 360,000/. ; the loss which I have now to state is 375,0001. The committee must boar in mind that an actual increase has taken P lace within the last two years in the low price teas, which I shallbe lb. quite s o safethait, i in p fact,tiu at not less than from 4d. to Od. per the whole of what we have given away in duty has been absorbed by the augmentation in the increased cost of the article. But do not let us suppose that upon that ac count the repeal of the duty has been useless to the consumer. (Hear, hear.) On the contrary, I ven ture to say that there never was a time at which it was more important that you should have removed the duty. What we are suffering from is not an abstraction of the duty removed by the trader who comes between the producer and consumer, but from a real scarcity of supply owing - to the state of affairs in China. But the effect of your remission of duty was thi4,' that it drew to England, le compared with other countries, a much larger propor tion of tea, than we should otherwise have had. And if it be true, as it undoubtedly is, that the public must now pay very nearly the same price for their tea as they did two years ago, still, if you had not remitted the duty, -the public would not only have had to pay that price and the whole amount of duty besides, but very considerably more. (Hear, hear.) There is another article upon which the duty was reduced, with respect to which I think the com mittee would like to know the results which have taken place. I refer to what is known as the New Penny Re ceipt'Stamps, not confined, however, to receipts, but like wise including drafts. lam happy to say that the results have been satisfactory beyond my expectations. (Cheers.) The state of the law previous to the change of the last year was indeed very defective, and there are still various points which it' will be my duty to propose to the house to amend. .For that purpose I hbpe to submit a bill very shortly which will have the effect of rendering the law more clear and more consistent than it is at present, and which will, at the same time, be beneficial to the Exche quer. But, with respeet to the alteration of last year, the case stands thus—when we reduced the stamps chargeable upon receipts from a scale fluctuating between 3d. and 10s. to an uniform duty of one penny, the estimated gross loss for the full year was stated at 155,0001. The one of that sum I ventured to assume would be recovered even during the first year, and I therefore only charged my relf with a loss of 74,0001. Bnt the chan g e only took effect on the 10th of October, and thereforei must halve that amount. Observing the same proportion, I could only expect, in order to fulfil my estimate, a net loss of 37,0001. under the head of receipt stamps. The law took effect, as I have said, on the 10th of October, and very great difficulty was found, notwithstanding the utmost exertions of the board of revenue department, in supplying the demand which sprang up from all quarters, and which bore no proportion to the previous consumption with re spect to numbers; because, under the operation of the law affecting stamp receipts, disobedience had become the rule and obedience the exception. (Hear.) But with respect to the new state of things, I am happy to say that obedience is the rule and disobedience is the exception. (Cheers.) But notwithstanding the very great reduction made in the amount of (duty payable from a tariff rangian from 3d. to 10s. to a uniform rate of one penny, for the 6 months commencing 10th Oct., 1853, and ending sth April, 1854, instead of a falling off of 37,0001., there has been an im provement of 36,0001. (Loud cheers.) The actual receipts into the Exchequer for the six months ending 10th Oct., 1852, and sth April, 1853. were 88,8981.; while the actual receipts for five and the estimated receipts for one month, making together the six months ending the sth of April, 1851, are 124,637/., showing an excess of 35,739 1 . (Cheers.) Now, the committee will likewise wish to know what, 'as far as I am in's condition to state, has been the result of the various measures adopted by the house during the last session for the extension and augmentation of taxes. First I will allude to that vexed subject—the Irish Income-6,x. (A laugh.) The collection of the income incometax I should say has been delayed by a variety of circumstances, and this collection must alwags be later on the occasion of an act which causes new assessments to be made, because new assessments create new appeals. The extension to Ireland has likewise been in some degree the cause of delay ; and the extension of the tax downwards to a new class of per sona, having incomes of between 1501. and 100/., necessarily brought forward a great mass of business altogether novel, and necessarily caused a considerable number of appeals, in reference to that class with which formerly we had nothing to do, and thereby had so much postponed the collection of the tax that at one period during the past quarter the Exchequer actually received a sum under that head of income less by 770,0001. than it had received in the previous quarter. That, however, has . nothing to do with the productiveness of the tax, it is simply with re ference to the duty of collecting; but it goes to account in some degree for that lowness of the public balances which has, during the last few weeks, been the subject of universal remark. The - state of the case with respect to the Irish income tax is this :—I estimated that tax would yield for the year 460,0001. after making every deduction, and speaking only of the net profit to .the Exchequer, the result has been as nearly as possible the very figures I have named, with at the same time a slight alteration upon the right side of the estimate. The net proceeds of the income tax for Ireland will be 480,0001. The half of that could of course only be received during the present year, and something less than that amount will have been received by the sth of April. The tax has fully answered the ex pectations with which it was proposed to the house. (Cheers.) . Then with respect to another kind of extension of the tax downwards in Great Britain to persons with incomes of from 1501. to 1001. a year, I am ,not yet in a condition to state, as the assessments have not been clearly and fully separated from the others, the precise result of the measure. But I atadn -a condition to state that the . tax will yield to the Exchequer at least as much as I yen - tined to calculate upon obtaining from it, and at the rate of at least 250,0001. a year. Another measure, with respect to which I have to give information to the committee, is the augmentation of the spirit duty in Scotland. The result of that measure also has to me been perfectly satisfactory; for though there is an apparent defalca tion from the amount of increase which I ventured to anticipate, this defalcation may fairly be explained by causes entirely apart from the augmentation of the tax, and especially apart from any suspicion on '-the subject of increased illicit distillation. I estimated, in April, 1853, that the addition to an annual income from the is. per gallon which was added to the spirit duty in Scotland would be equal to a sum of 278,0001. on the year. As I now estimate the produce of that addi- • tional tax it will be, not 278,0001., but only 209,0001. in the year. But it will be within the knowledge of all persons connected with Scotland, and of many who are not so ac quainted with the country, that a very strong religious sentiment has set in—if I may use the expression—against the great consumption of spirits. (Cheers.) That state of public opinion led, during the past year, to the enactment of a restrictive law on the, subject. A bill, not introduced by the Government, but at the same time not disapproved of by them, by its restrictive enactments greatly narrowing the means of selling spirits, led of necessity to a diminu tion in the consumption. This diminution in the con sumption has so far affected the revenue from spirits in Scotland that, instead of 278,0001., the amount received has been only 209,0001. But I have the utmost satisfac tion in stating that there is not so much as a breath of sus picion that any part of that diminution is connected with the revival of illicit distillation, (Cheers.) We then come to a measure regarded as more critical in, its character, viz. the, augmentation of the spirit duty in Ireland. The result of that measure has been altogether satisfactory—(cheers) —and so far has it been from causing any general revival of illicit distillation, as far as we are yet enabled to judge from experience of nearly a twelvemonth, on the contrary, the Excise revenue has even exceeded somewhat the amount which I then ventured to anticipate. The amount for which I took credit, as an addition to the income of the country in consequence of the augmentation of the Irish spirit duty, was 198,000/. ; the actual increase under the head of Irish spirits, so far as I am now enabled to state it, will be not less than 213,000/. (Cheers.) I should also state that in taking the sum of 213,0001. as the increased revenue from Irish spirits, I have made allowance for extra expenditure connected with establishments which it was thought prudent, under the circumstances, to incur, bat which expenditure will I trust in future years be found practicable to diminish. There remains but one otheramong these retrospective subjects to which I need refer, and on it I have little to say—it is the item of the succession duty. So far as regards the ultimate probable yield of that Measure, I have no reason to depart from the conjectural estimate which I made last year when bringing forward the subject. But the effect of the postponements which it was thought but fair and equitable to allow in the payment of the, tax has been such as greatly to reduce the new tax in the course of the year which has expired. In certain cases also of the legacy duty we relaxed this relief upon points such as affinity and leaseholds, and the deductions from the proceeds of the legacy duty under these heads have almost overtaken all that we have yet reaped from the succession duty. Even looking forward to next year—from April, 1854, to April, 1855—1 do not venture to anticipate more than half a million from that tax. With regard to the ultimate results, I believe they will be very much as I then ventured to conjecture them. lam bound to say that all that has occurred under the operations of the law has convinced me that those very florid and sanguine views which some gentlemen, when the tax was brought forward, ventured to submit, promising three millions, four millions, five millions, and even more net as the pro ceeds, are altogether of a visionary character. (Hear.) That is the state of the case as regards the twelve months now nearly expired ; and I think the committee will be of opinion that the whole of the facts combine to show that the finances of the country are on a sound and solid _ba_sis. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) We have now, sir, whichlook tor- Ward and to frame the estimates for the year com mences on the 6th of next April, t mat e s must of course be framed with a due regardwiektheealtered cir cumstances of the country, to some contraction e of e t e r s a t dt ef , o to a great augmentation , I grieve almost every important article of eto say, of subsistence. Keeping those important points in view,e and me moderante4aclleortwainanlcey any large, but at 'the same time with reference to them, I ven ture to submit to the com mittee the following estimate of the probable revenue of the year 185 4-5 : — I t ake the Customs duties—and here p,s well as under other heads, I allow for those reduc tions of taxes which will take effect under laws already in force —I take the Customs at 20,175,0001.; the Excise at 14,595,0001.; the Stamps at 7,090,000/. ; the Taxes at 3,015,00 0 /. • the Income-tax at 6,275,0001. ; the P os t- o ffi ce at 1,200,0d0/- ; the Crown lands and la n d revenues at 259,000/. ; old stores, 420,000/. ;' miscellaneous, 320,0001. The total sum anticipated for the year 1851-5 will be 53,349,000 1 . Now, sir, looking forward to the expendi ture of the year, I need not tell the committee I enter upon a detail loss satisfactory than that which I have thus far given. The first head; however, is one on which there is a considerable reduction. The charge for the funded debt for 1854-5 I take only at 27,000,000/. The actual charge for the 12 months ending the sth' January, 1854, was 27,570,0001. There is a difference, therefore,' of 570,0001. in favour of the country. (Hear.) The larger part of that difference—a sum of 312,0001.—is due to the operation of the act passed by the house in the year 1844, upon the recommendation of my right hon. friend the member for the University of Cambridge (Mr. Goulburn); and of the residue, namely, 258,0001., almost the whole is due to the liquidation under the act of last year of certain minor stocks, known as South Sea Stocks and Annuities, and some other funds. There is not a net saving to that amount, but that is the amount of diminution on the charges of the public debt. (Hear.) The charge upon the unfunded debt I think it wise, under the circumstances of the country and the money market, to take at an amount which I trust will be sufficient. I take that estimate at 546,000/. ; the charges on the Consolidated Fund St 2,460,0001.; the army at 6,857,0001 4 the navy at 7,483,000/.; the ordnace at 3,847,00 01 .; the commissariat at 645,0001.; the miscellaneous estimates at 1,775,000/4 the militia, the ; same as last year, at 530,0001. • the packet service—the only estimate -which shows, I dank, a diminution on the , / . punt Toted last year, and vriiieh, sir, a dirnintttia of B,oool.— s t 7 92,00 M . - And then, it is n ecessa ry 1 Ishould etate to the committee some amount . of. money which, without attempting at the present moment to deter mine what shall be its technical designation, or under what form it shall be voted, I may describe as • a provi s i on f or the extraordinary military expenditure connected'' with the expedition to the East, (Hear, hear.) It is extremely difficult to,ferm anything which can be called an i se4imate of that expenditure.. (Hear, hear.) , I am - hound =to remind the committee, war is a disturber, as of other things more serions, so likewise of financial computations and the re gularity of financial proceedings. We have thought it right, in deference to the hottse— that it may well under stand the nature of the obligations it is contracting—to make known at the earliest possible moment what we pro pose with reference to provision for the wants of the pub lic service ; but it is quite impossible' for us to undertake to say at this moment that the provision we now propose, sand which we p ropose after due deliberation and the best exercise of our judgment, shall be a provision adequate, and neither too great nor too small, for the exigencies and wants of the whole year. (Hear, hear.) It is of necessity, therefore, an indefinite sum for which we ask, with refe rence to the expense of this expedition to the East. On what principle shall we attempt to calculate that l sum ? On this principle. That it is . our duty not .to remove the public expenditure of the country, and especially the war expenditure, from the control . of the House of Commons. (Cheers.) If we were to ask you to place in our hands, as the proceeds of the taxes of the country, a very large sum of money to be applied to the purposes of the war, amount ing to several millions, you might, justly say, " wait until the necessity has arisen ; Parliament is not about to sepa rate in the month of March ; it is in your power to make a further proposal in the month of June or July, if the cir cumstances of the country and the state of Europe should then seem to warrant such a proposal." (Hear.) We are about to act on that principle, and to ask only for such an amount, 'which though it may seem large to some gentlemen we feel convinced is the smallest by which,' under the most favour able circumstances, we can hope to see those gallant forces now leaving our shores Drought back after the completion, of the • object for which the are sent. (Cheers.) Taking those forces at 25,000 men, we propose to ask the conirnittse to vote a sum of money for the purpose of extraordinary mili tary service at the rate of 501. per head, or a Sum of 1,250,000/. (Murmurs of surprise.) Thierting, therefore, that amo un t i n the estimate of expenditure which I have ventured to give to the committee, the total amount of es timated expenditure, including that sum of 1,250,0001., ,is 56,189,0001. The estimated revdnue, as I have alrea dy stated to the committee, is 53,349,000/. And therefore there is a deficiency upon the estimate of revenue. • for the year '1854-5, as compared with the estimate of expenditure, amounting to no less than 2 ,840,0001. That estimated ex cess, air, of expenditure above income, does' not represent the whole cost of the war. Had it not been for the measure in which we are engaged, and - which we deemed necessary for the honour and welfare of the country, we should not "only have been sparepresentinito you that deficiency, but we should have been in a condition to promise you a surplus (Cheers.) I will just now state concisely to the committee how the- account would stand, but for the augtnentation of the estimates rendered necessary by the demands of the public service. As compared with the estimate of last year, the excess, or rather the increase—for the word " excess" is equivocal—the increase upon the army is 832,0004; the increase upon the navy, 1,253,0001, ;the increase upon the Ordnance, 793,0001.; the increase upon the commissariat, 88,0001. : the increase upon the miscellaneous 'is 299,000 i. There is a small di m i nu ti on upon' the Packet service of 8,0001., and an increase under the head' of military extra ordinary expenses of. 1,050,0001. I stated the cost of the expedition to the East=-or rather, not the cost,,but the sum we are about to ask of ,the house en account of the cost—to be 1,250,0001. Last year there was an expenditure of 200,0001. on account of the Kafir war. Therefore, the balance under the head of military extraordinary expenses is an increase of 1,050,000/. With th e small deduc ion I have mentioned, that shows a total excess in the estimates of the present year over last year of 4,307,0001. The estimate of expenditure which I presented to you in April, 1853 (and I refer to it now in order to enable the committee to judge what would have been our position in the absence of disturbing circumstances), was 52,183,0001. The estimated revenue which I now look for for the year 1854-5 is 53,349,0001. So that if our expenditure, accord ing to estimate, had continued the same as it was twelve months ago,`instead of a deficiency of 2,840,0001., I should have been able to present to you a surplus of 1,166,000 L, in addition to the saving on the fended debt to which I have already referred, and which I may state in round numbers at 500,000/. ; so that there would have been, in fact, a fund to apply to fresh and further remissions of taxes of 1,666,0001. Adding that surplus which' there would have been, in the absence of disturbing circumstances, to the deficiency I now present, the total difference on the account against the Exchequer amounts to no less than 4,506,0001. Well e then, sir, that is the total difference against the Exchequer, and the total sum for-which we have to provide, without taking the surplus into account at all, is 2,840,000/. Under these circumstances it will be for the committee to consider in what manner this deficiency shall be made up. Now, in the first place, I trust that the committee will 'not Consent to make up any portion of this deficiency by interfering with those reductions of taxation which have acquired the force of law, although they have not yet taken actual effect. (Cheers.) The amount of those reductions is considerable. They reach for the year 1854-5 in round numbers a million and a half. There is also upon the soap duties, on which there was a small receipt at the commencement of laskyear, a loss of 140,0001. And while lam touching on the soap duties, it may be as well to state to the committee, to show that reduCtion of establishment does notalways unduly lag behind reduction of taxation—it may be as well to state to you, in consequence of the change with respect •to the soap duties, and in consequence of the change in system with respect to the post-horse duty, which' the house was pleased to adopt last year, there has been a reduction on the establishment of .the Inland Revenue Department, amounting to no less than 30,0001. a year. It was thought proper to place a portion of the staff to 'watch the effect of the spirit duty, but the reduction, distinct from that tem porary arrangement, reaches the considerable sum of 30,0001. a year. (Cheers.) There is a loss upon soaP, which I may call the residue of the duty on soap, of 140,000/. The reduction of 4d. per lb. on the duty on tea, which will take effect on the sth of April next, will cause a loss to the revenue of 050,000/. The amount of relief given by the charges on the assessed taxes, which will likewise take effect on the sth of April, will be 334,000/., and the mea sure devised last year by my noble friend the Postmaster- General, for the purpose of effecting a most beneficial change in colonial postage, will cost 40,0001. The whole amount of relief from taxes now in force, which the public will enjoy between the sth of April, 1854, and the sth of April, 1855, in consequence of the measures you adopted last year, and the votes you came to, reaches 1,474,0001. 'Note also, what you recover if you retrace your steps is 1,002,0001.. But, as I have said already, I will not attempt to argue that question, for I am well persuaded, whatever other course you may think proper to adopt, you will , not retrace the steps you entered on last year, so far as the present measures and the demands of the present exigency are concerned. (Hear, hear.) I must now express my hope that the committee, if it is determined not to withdraw the boons which last year it promised, and which it cannot withdraw without serious disturbance to trade, and great discomfort to a multitude of individuals—l must express my hope that the committee will support the Government in standing by those branches of public revenue which exist and are available. We do not think it consistent with our public duty, in the face of such a state of Europe, of such circumstances at home and abroad, of such figures as I have now laid before you, to propose to you to part with any branch or any sensible part of any branch of ex isting public revenue. (Cheers.) Well, then, sir, if money must be had, is it to be had by increasing duties on other articles ? If ybu are determined not to repeal the laws of last year, and likewise determined not to part with any income now, would it be right, do you think, at the pre sent moment to increase the rates of duty on articles of consumption in the branches of Customs and Excise, or to replace those duties, or any of those duties, which during some years you have abolished? I cannot doubt the answer of the committee will be in the negative. (Loud cheers.) The answer of the Government is that we ought not to take that course. (Cheers.) But, at the same time, while I give that answer on my own behalf and on the part of my colleagues, with the clearest conviction of its justice, it is impossible, I think, to put out of vie* the contingencies which must necessarily attend upon the pro longation of the war on which we have now entered. I cannot, so far as the views of the Government are con cerned, hold out to this committee any reasonable expecta tion that if, which God forbid ! the struggle we are now entering upon should be prolonged for years, it would be in our power to secure toall those articles recently relieved from duty, permanent continuance of that immunity. I fear, sir, all we can say with respect to those objects of indirect taxation, as compared to direct taxation, is that which the Cyclops said to Ulysses, wh en h e gave the pre mise •of this privilege, that he would devour him the last. (Cheers and laughter.) This is a matter which the com mittee cannot put out of view. I speak strongly, and with the sincerest conviction ; we cannot and do not advise you to add one farthing to the indirect taxation of the country. (Cheers.) There is one other proposition to which I antici pate the ready assent of the committee. We have en t ered on a great struggle ; but wo have entered upon it under favourable circumstances. We have proposed to you to make great efforts, and you have nobly and cheerfully backed our proposition. (Loud cheers.) You have already by vote added very nearly 40,000 men to the establish ments of the country ; and, taking into view the changes which have actually taken effect in the return of soldiers f ro m the colonies, and the reductions which might be made, in the present state of Ireland, in' the amount of the constabulary force there, but which are not made in order to render our military forces disposable to the utmost possible extent, it is not too much to say the virtual ad dition to our forces by sea and land, as compared with the number 12 months ago, nearly reaches 50,000 men. (Loud cheers.) This, sir, looks like an intention of carrying on war with vigour. (Renewed cheers.) The wish and hope of the Government is, that it may be said with regard to this war—that it may be truly said of the people of Eng land—what was not, perhaps, so truly said by a courtier and great poet, Dryden, of King Charles ll. " Re without fear a dangerous war pursues, Which without rashness he began before " (Cheers.) That, we trust, will be the motto of the people of England ; and we have the advantage that the senti ments of Europe, and, I trust, the might of Europe, are with us. (Renewed cheers.) These circumstances, although I am not senguine—although it would be the wildest pre sumption in any man to pretend to say, when the ravages of war have once begun, at what Point they will be stayed —yet justify us in cherishing the hope that poss ibly this may not be a prolonged s t rugg l e. B ut, as long as that possibility remains, th e comm itt ee will agree w ith me in thinking it not wise, in the ende avour t o su pply the wants Of the Country, to do 'it by a series of measures which shall worry different classes and different interests, dif ferent trades and different industries, disturbing every body's calculations and operations, adding 100,0301. to income here, 9 00,000/. there, and 300,0001. somewhere else. (Hear, hear, hear.) I am sure the committee 'will agree with the Government tint is not the course which the present exigency roquis les. And whatever we c t l o o , d I o tak e it i i t t h f am minimumi hei forg „ranted b t a li n a c t et we o tarei.a t rade and a e n n a de i a4 i o u n s. r . try. (Hear.) But there Is it right impossible for me to 'pass by without notice. d aVour to is ono great question which et i s that we should ourselves inalse a resolute en n we a lth i i n n i s i t ti m wo oe u t la tl i i t e b c o lia m rg a e n s ly o s f comingAtrinlklit 1.30 worthy war,rt charge yla o r r o n .fw the o u l would e t upon our posterity. (Bear, ean is, both in this house power of England, that we sh oul d I l az e co th n o v s in e c b e rc . l s e i n r s , that at the present moment ther e market country, as loan would be a course- no re sort to the money and throughout the strong opinion that, to it may be that the de character. (Loud cheers. ) Sir , required by our necessities , and therefore unworthy of ou Inow about to make upon the committee --God grant man it am may be otherwise—but it may prove, it is but t ' first of a series of demands. 1, therefore, do n o t spea k simply, I frankly own, with respect to the the pres en t oees (Hear.) 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