The Sun. — London, England, 1857-02-24 00:00:00

means—had it not been for the speech we heard on Fri. questions which are not much to the purpose at present, day night from my right hon, friend the me m b er f or the and I concur w ith th e r i g h t h on. gentleman opposite University of Oxford (Mr. Gladstone.) I was one of the (Mr. Dis rae li), w h en h e said we need not employ our selves in disqui s iti ons on di rec t an di n di reettaxes, because, colleagues of my right hon, friend when h e b rought for. unhappily, we know that both to a great extent must be ward his budget of 1853, and I was not only perfectly imposed upon and paid by the people. (Hear.) My right quiescent, but I was warm, and I may say, an ardent hon. friend the member for the University of Oxford says supporter of the plan which he th en l a i d down. My that the Chancellor of th e E xc h equer i s really endeavour right hon. friend says that the Ch ance l lor of the Ex- ing to defeat that un d ers t an di ng which vets come to in chequer hastotally departedfro m 1853, that in the ye ar 1860 we should see an end of the the principl es on which income tax. I hold it to be a very great point of public po that budget was founded —that he wishes as far as in licy to adhere to the expectation which was then held out. him lies to destroy those principles, and that he wishes (Cheers.) I recollect how manygentlemen thei e were who thought it would b e possible towakea distinction b e t ween to falsify the promi se th en held out in the most solemn Permanent and prec ar i ous i ncome; Iremember how many manner that in th e year 1860 the income tax should ceases re wo objected to the successio n tax ; and I These are grav e c h arges —affecting not only the Chan. think, unless home overpowering necessity should arise, oellor of the E xc h equer, but affecting every one of the that the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1860 w ou ld no t members of that Cabinet of which my right hon. friend be justified in continuing in operation a tax which ought was then the organ . N one of the members of that Cabi- ttoba i its a great weapon —the mostowerful financial cease at the end o f th at year. (Cheers.) I am of opinion t net who no w rema i n in office having ri sen t o d e f en d the weapon yea possess f or a t i me of war. p (Hear.) The budget, w ith th e k now l edge which they have of its experience of the last war has shown us this fact as details and its r u r p o i e , i t i s i ncumbent upon me to die- strongly as did the experience of the French war. You prove as far as I am abl e th e c h arges which have been collect an i mmense revenue by this means. It is perhaps advanced by my right h on . f r i en d . In doing so I only a species o f con fi scation, because you take i man that whi c h h e h as at the moment, without inquiry away from a go so far as to say th a t I thi n k i t r i ght to go at once into committee of ways and means without assenting to the to enjoy it. But you take it as the means of obtaining proposition of the right hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. national security in time of peril and of war, and yo u Disraeli.) I concur generally in the principles on which are justified in so doing. You must either abandon the the Chancellor of the E xc h e qu er h as f oun d e d his budget, t ax a ft er a certain time, or reconstruction,attemptitscoulda c Into all the details of his propositio n I am not bound to c which Id i o n nao satisfactory a ti sf believe act3 r anyy raanner. lam th ere f ore most financial abilities ac enter. lam still less bound to ente r i n t o ap m articular desirous that the tax should come to an end in the year vote of supply, because the question which the Chancel- 1860. (Cheers.) I confess I cannot see how the Chan c lor of the Exchequer has brought f orward, I believe in cellor of the Exchequer has i n t er p ose d any o b stacle in ine. (Hear.) conformity with the opinions of thi s h ouse, is this, that the way of the termination of the t ax at thattime. we shallfirst take into considerati on th e ways and means; Not only has he not done s o , b ut in my opinion his ad ditin of in and in t two that we shall endeavour to decid e w h at is the prospect following two yeaprs ence —and the his present proposal year that further sums at least of our revenue and expenditure, and what are should be levied on tea and sugar than are imposed in specially Now, sir, sir, it appears t o me, and I think the house gene. to carry that bud ge t i nto effect. (Che er rally will concur i n thi s op i nion, that the Chancellor of fore us a return sh ow i ng the amount of liabilities incurred in respect of the war ; and according to the Exchequer, i n th e present year, had no ordinary dift we shall have to pay in the ears 1857 that -8-9 n date than ficulties to conte n d w ith. H e had upon him, in the first 6,000,0001. Exchequer bond y s. The Chancellor of the place, the obligation of checking, as far as he was able, Exchequer is pursuing that course because he has asked c that inclination to e x t ravagan t expend i ture, which, under us to assent t o t h e payment of 2,000,0001. of these Ex the name of efficient establi s h men t s , i s so strongly re- Lion t g due in theresentear—a P year—a o which we gave our unanimhas assent. PBesi osi des commended by the military and nav a l departments. In these Exchequer bills we shall have to pay in respect to the next place he had to consider the genera desire of the principal of the debt nu less than 9,250,0001. Al the country, founded upon what was, I think, a fair and together we shall have to pay in these three years the equitable interpretation of the act which passed at the sum of 13,202,000/. Now, if we are to effect that ob- Commencement of the war, that what is called "the war ject, I ask lo what means could the Chancellor of the 9d." should cease, not at the time at which the technical Exchequer resort except keeping up taxes somewhat terms of the act bad fixed, but on the sth of April after higher than the act of Parliament would justify, and the termination or actual conclusion of the war. In the thus obtaining means to do that which has never been next place there rested upon him the obligation of endea- done before —that which my right hon. friend, the mem %tontine, as far as possible, not to place any obstacle in the bar for the University of Oxford, particularl recom way of the total ab o liti on o f t h e income tax in 1860. mends—namely, the paying off of a considerable y portion (Hear.) Besides all th ese o bli gations, there was another, of the debt of a war within a very short time after the which, 1 bsheve, notwithstanding all that has been said, sommencement of that war. Therefore the policy he was quite willing to perform as far as the condition of of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, so far from the finances would allow —the obligation not to press being in opposition to the plan of my right hon. friend hardly upon the great articles of consumption, arol the member for the University of Oxford, is in direct thus cramp the industry and fetter the means of the in- conformity with it. A part of the charge of ray right duetrious clasees. Now this was the position of the hon. friend was, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Ido not think he has has shown an indifference upon the subject ; that he was done ill in proposing that "the war ninepence" should taxing those great articles of consumption, tea and sugar, he at once abolished—that instead of fivepence, seven- without necessity. Now, I wholly deny that there was pence should be for a certain period the limit of the anything tending to show such an indication on the part income tax, and that arrangements should he made fo r of the Chancel or of the Exchequer. It was said, be paying off the debts which the country and Parliament sides, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had really are bound to discharge. But what says my right hon. misrepresented the whole case, and that while he re friend the member for the university of Oxatiel ? I tarried that to which he had a right, and which bel netted think the Chancellor of the Exchequer was in this situa- to the Exchequer, he talked of the taxes which were to ti,' —that if he had proposed a very considerable reenis- be remitted as if they were the gift of the Government, sloe of taxation, such remissions as have been prepoef d and that the G , vernment were about to remit the sum of in former years—it m i g ht h ave b ee n said, " You are 11,900,0001. N ow , i t i s o b v i ous that the only fair course parting wish the ways end means which furnish the re- which tile Cbancellor of the Exchequer can take is to lay venue, and you ve il th ere b y make it impossible to pro- before the hous e an d b e f ore comm i ttees of ways and vide ter the ces sa ti on of the income tax a t t h e end o f three means and supply, the st a t e o f th e coun t ry , to s h ow them what would be th e o p erat i on o f an act et P arliament, yeers." If, on t h e other band, he had p rov id e d f or the due supply o f th e revenue, so teat after the three years and to propos e t o t h em t h e scheme which he thought by retainin g i n t h e b ands of the Government those taxes beet for the cou n t r y. I t i s not f or him to say, " I grant to the country 11,000,0901. of taxes. But I ask the hous e , which must fur n i s h t h at reveene, he would then obvi ou-ly have been open to the charge that be had not fil was there anything of that kind of boatting lowed in the track of hi s pre d ecess , re, which since 1842 in my right h•inefriend's statement ? (Cheers.) You may inahe ob. has so greatly reli e v e d th e tra d e and industry of the j ec ti ou to his statement —you may say there will be a country. But what I should not have expected i., that deficiency in future years —you may dissent from his these two charges, so opposite and so inconsistent, sho u id Policy altogether ; hut I defy any wan to say that he have come from the same person, have been u• tered by was guilty of boasting, or of any undue assumption, the same voice and in the same speech in the course of I come n• xt to those duties which the Chancellor of the one discussion. With regard te the remission of duties!, Exchequer proposes to keep up—the o tea and it is obvious that the Cbancellor of the Ex c h equer cou l d sugar— w h ich he intends to keep up at too taxes grea n t an ex hardly make any great remission ctneistently with keep- cess. From representations which have been made to big up the revenue, so as to be able to remit the income use by persons who are largely engaged in the tea trade, tax in the year 1860. (Hear, hear.) It was prod Aimed whose petition I presented the other day, lam of opinion in 1853, after a great deal of discussion had taken place, that he will gain iu the present year more than 1,000,0;01, that two alternatives ware then open to the house—ihe beyond what the act of Parliament gives him. The one, that of eudeavouring to reconstruct the income tax, and make it m ore e ual and amount which h e w ill o b tain in the present year, ac q more just ; the other, that cording to the act Pof arliament, is 4,000,000/., but by of not pretending to amend the tax which Mr. Pitt and his proposition he will receive 5,066,0001. In the year Lord Lansdowne, and many , there, had denlared them 1858-9, tooter the act of parliament he would receive selves in able to amend, and that without attempting to 3 , 2 00,0001., but by his arrangement the amount will be amend the tax, you should consider it as a t-x for an ex- 4,550,0001. In the three years, instead ef receiving traordinary, emergency, and provide for its cessation at a 10,400,0001., he will take 13,616,0001, being an increase certain fixed period. Of these two alternatives the Par- in the duties on tea alone in the course of three years of hal - tient, at the request cf the Government, and I believe, 3,216,000/. Now I think that is too much to impose entirely concurring with the Government, adopted the upon an article so generally useful as tea, in the course last. But then if you adopted this alternative, you must of three years, for the purpose of defraying the expenses take care to supply th e revenue—you must take care of the war. I s h ou ld w i sh, therefore, that either by that if von arrive at the year 1360, these sources of adopting the proposal of the persons engaged in trade, revenue may not have been so injured that you wilt find of having is. 4d. duty for each of the three years, or by it a matter of positive necessity to keep up that tax. some similar scale, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Hear.) In the Sear 1345, when Sir R. Peel placed his , should - somewhat mitigate the pressure of that hex. And alternative before us, he said, "The tax Iles now lasted on this subject I have to say that a statement has gone for three years, and you may reduce it or allow the tax forth, apparently on the authority of the Chancellor of to expire ; the half-year which is still due wiml furnish the Exchequer and the Secretary for the Treasury, means by which yo u may prov i de for the requirements which is altogether erroneous. The Chancellor of the of the year, but that is riot the course which 1 would re. Exchequer is supposed to have stated that the stocks of commend ; the course which I recommend is, chat yo u sugar were unusually low, and that the same in effect should take off many of our duties, that you should was tree as regarded tea. lower ninny ethers which I think are injurious to the The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ob people of thin country. But if you do so, you mutt served that what he had stated was that difficulties at preserve the income tax." The house chose to mai n t a t e , Canton rendered it probable that the future supply of the income ta x . W e ll , s i r, that is very much our al- tea might be short. He did not state that there was a tentative at the present moment. It would have been low stock of tea. utterly inconsistent in my right bun, friend the Chancel. Lord J. RUSSELL —There was an ambiguity in the lit of the Ex c h equer —th ere would have been some ground phrase which has l e d t o some m i stake on that point. There for the accu sa ti on o f an i ns i d i ous purpose on his part of is an u nusua ll y l arge stock of tea in London at the present tune—l believe not less th an 87 , 000 ,00 Jibs.—of which it is breaking that p rom i se w hi ch has been given for the abto probable th a t 10,030 , 00 01 b 5. will pay duty within a month talon of the i ncome tax —i f he had come forward and said, "Here a re th e tea and su ar duties which I can after the lat April. That bein g th e case, t h e statement part with at onc e —b are are many g, other taxes of a most with regard to the small quantity o f t ea i s not correct. h p osal of the Chll of the Exchequer is o injurious kind, and I will mat.; e a gre a t rem i ss i on. " That duce tea duty from le; ance 90. to r is. 7d. law says thre at would not. have been consistent with keeping faith with the reduction shall be 6d. per lb. The Chancellor of the the public en the subject of the income tax. The ground Exchequer proposes a reduction of only 2d. Now Idu not now taken is, that there is a departure from the policy think the benefit of that 2d. will go to the consumer. I be adopted 15 years ago—that of abolishing and reducing a have it will go to the wholesale and retail dealers, and that vast number of small duties, thus simplifying the revenue such a small reduction will be of no advantage to tho con and collecting that revenue by means of fewer hands, sumer. (Hear.) I therefore hope that when we come to that Now, I think my right hon. friend the member for the pairlit endeavour budget in ways and means, my right hon. friend render that proposal more palatable and University of Oxford, when be made that statement, gave Zeneficiaelavniors e ir r , ro h n a eo vi u v pointed (tu f a the a very imperfect account of the policy adopted 15 years exaggerat • ed and (Cheers.) sonaewh w a't c ago. It was a statement likely to be agreeable to the right hon. friend the member for the Wiivserositynloyf hen. gentlemen opposite, whose cheers he appears to be Oxford, I will allude for a moment to his allegation that somewhat desirous of obtaining. No doubt there the Chancellor of the Exchequer was treating us like child were propo'als to simplify the revenue —either to ab •lish ren. My right hoe. friend seems somewhat like au anxious or to reduce to a very s mall amoun t a great number of mother, who, h av i ng a f avour i te child in the cradle, dreams small duties. But th at was not t h e pr i nc i pal merit of the that the child i s f a lli ng over a precipice, and screams out in affright for fe ar h er b e l oved child should be lost. (Laugh and I think some p ar t o f th a t po li cy withbudget of Sir R. Peel—th a t was no t i ts c hi • f feature— There was rea lly so muc h pathos in my right hon. small articles was of a questionable regard to many friend's statement, th a t no thi ng b ut a feeling of that kind ch a r ac t er . Wh at I —some, not ma t erna l , b u t paternal feeling, with respect to and others approv e d o f i n that budget —and I ma y count the budg e t o f 1853— cou ld have induced him to take what my right hon. fri en d th e Ch ance ll or o f the Exchequsr I conceive to be so discoloured and assiona a view of amongst them, b e ca use h o h as a l ways admired the prin, this subject of 'Silence and figures. (La p ughter.) te But as the ciple of the great philosophers who have laid dow n th e mother would fine her child in the cradle safe, and would doctrines of free trade—what we approved of in that go back to bed in comfort, so I trust the division to- n i g ht, budget was th e p r i nciple laid down that there was to be whatever it may be, though it may be entirely against my a great diminution of protective duties—(hear)—that right hon, friend's views, will find him delivered from that degree abolished differential duti es were to a considerable d e delusion, and th a t hi s ch i ld is in safety and is not in that —that protection would th us i n a great g degree be taken dan g er w hich his fears represented. (Laughter.) I com e away, and th a t t h e road would be open for amuch l now, having dealt with the allegation of my right hon. arger friend, to a very serious part of this question, which Ido and greater change. (Cheers.) At that ti not think we can decide according to the proposition of the my constituents came to me on the sub ' e ca me T re he an r y op e e- 1 right hon. gentleman, and by the motion to-night, but makers complained teat protection was taken fiche rope upon which I chnfess uc l h feel serious apprehensions anti look the boot and shoe makers said they wegualgdedh in ve the regards r to ega th r e ds fu n tu o r ex. o thm ensue y—l mean that par , which f protection for their industry ; persons en ways and means, but the committee o manufacture of straw plait in the midland counties said supply, sad the votes to be taken in it. I think we cannot that their protection would be removed ; the fi s h ermen as k t h e Chancellor of the Exchequer to produce the esti in. the north who were engaged in the herring fishery mates for 1858 and 1859—it would be utterly unreasonable made a similar complaint ; and numerous complaints of to do so ; but at the same time there is a question asked by the like nature were made by a number of otheritt srettro the right hon. gentleman opposite which was fairly raised by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, On the first night of My answer to them was—and it was the answer which the budg t the Chancellor of the Exchequer told us what Sir R. Peel himself in 1847 considered a just one—" All he prop,S s e e o, these things must be taken together ; if protection is ing his prepo N i d on w s h A t r w ti c l i e uld be the consec i kd o ence of adopt broken in upon with regard to a number of articles ma- about 65 millions of expenditure,prese year. millions vrete o l f la r v e e nefactured by toesartans, other protected interests must vhhite,oleavittg about 900 0001. of surplus ; but when my finally be forced yield. It might be a natural policy ft bit 12 g Your came down on a subsequent day ho said, in the eyes of many; although I think a mistaken one, will be 62,30n0te0(v1 be very much less in future years ; it to protect all interests—to protect the shuttle as well theexpenditureof thol will not make you an estimate of as the plough—to protect the fisherman along with the the estimate and ex pe s n er t a u rs, but if yon will co aware it with roof lElp, you will see that you sugar planter. But if you apply the principles of free can haves margin of 3,000,000 can provide for the trade, and take away protection from a number of smaller service according to the expendi•t'un3yoeful "But then," interests, you will bring down the destruction of the says the right hon. gentleman the m em t 3. er for Bucks, " if whole I laterts." (Hear, hear.) I said to those who a that isle is so valuable, if the establish Atestablishments in 1853 were pled to r ae , ~ D • - • Don t complai n th a t w h i l e you cannot sell sufficient to support the honour and security of thecountry, your boots why is it that we cannot have them for 1857? (a and shoes, oryour ropes, at protection hoar.) prices, YOU are obliwed to Why are we to postpone our Wisdom till 1858? ear ' pay an increased price for is it your corn ; be caute ° 0 that we are to say we will be lavish in 1857, but i ll a long the day win a y u may depend upon it that before shall be 'pendent and economical , that n Bwe so wise, so everybody must givasaytoo,rrainved when these protected interests will admit wo shall balance the income and expenditure"' abolished the system of free trade, small monopolies being I will not revert to the estimates of 1853, but I cannot help, cod will in tim e v i stt r t th the great principle of as the right hon , gentleman referred to them, referring to and in sugar." Well, sir, that camee great dealers in corn my own extravagant estimates of 1818. Several gentlemen great merit of the policy of 1842 to pass, and the high in office complained of the extravagance of those esti with the question, and led to ~ a was that it firmly dealt mates. I have been looking at those estimates, and I find the principles of which we aizstoablishment of free that they amounted, for the army, navy, and ordnance, to trade, of us acknowledged at the oommencemrenvteoritrael— y all, 17.11,0001 1 ., and d for . the militia to 15/000 Ima d k e ti t g Parliament. Now I ask, has my right hoe. friend present 11 caen and, taking . the whole estimates—thehole amount was the civil service, de- , contingencies—the w these principles I Having been 53 496 511 , , 1. If I add to that the estimate for the collection parted from a freeerader all his life, has he in any way ignored this Polio er in-' of the revenue and the civil service superannuation a new augurated policy ? Far from it ;he h 45 do 4 ,710,0001., there was a total of 58,206,511 h I find that certainly should have been • • doe those extravagant estimates, which I was unable to perse tonothing of the kind. I ,_ . willing . . Ido not concur • Vero in, which I was obliged to confess, not being of abso spare a good part of his hpe-ola with lute n • ' which he made with respect t o t ecessity, I would not attempt to go on with in the him in the observations ace of the feelin of the ghouse, were 5,018,030/. below the fire insurance, the tax on which is most excessive and estimates e with his observation s not h • o the present year. If that is the case I oppressive. (Hear.) (Hear.) Ido not agree _ . eIP thinking there I•in ' • may be some re, uction the esti on the paper duty. I consider these duties f Excise to be mates of the pres t They the Chanc ll en year. (Hear, hear.) Ido not blame in themselves of a most injurious nature. (Cheers.) every Ch eor of the Exchequer. I know the tr mble stop, and prevent, and decrease manufactures—tee y en- economy ri ance o llor of the Exchequer has to enforce hence prices ; and it is no consolation to be told, when the Chancellonr other departments ; but I say, butng a page of Shales pere or of Milton has a tax upon the when we come to the Exchequer, that I cannot think, paper before it ie printed, that the old woman in the cot- means, but to the questrnatinfai not of committee of ways and tags is affected, a; : and 'flJurionly affected, by the same im- to look sharply and vigilantly c.ornotittee of supply, we ought post, inasmuch as the wrapper which contains her ounce year- The ministers for thaYitentaortthe estimates for the next of tea is taxed also. Ste t should be—r With respect to insurance to give for those estimates otherpthan: those ay have reasons ccllor of the itExchequer has given. Therewmhaichlittheedeehtals and paper, I a very small amount. I quite concur in the policy, al- thatlmsaLjnist tfoyttoomheouthseattitieaem at present unyjustifiatele ; most the necessity, of not touching upon these-large b ;' it I trust that we are - tltrist that this is a period sub jects of revenue, when the mind of the house and the e' peace., I trust that those foolish goinghonstrilathie peace with Per mind China— mind of the country is fixed upon the income tax. (Hear.) ( s e la iS eers )--will rot be continued ; and hostilities But lam sorry to find that the Chancellor of the Ex- seeing that we have an alliance with France,ngtileese,,, chequer pronounced a kind of panegyric on those taxes, 1848, g when I produced those estimates, was a nustt which, in as if they were merito r ious ones. Ido not think it was considerable doubt—seeing that we have made peace e with necessary to disinter Arthur Young to give evidence on that great power which was lately our enemy, and that the treaty of peace has fulfilled all the objects of the war, I such was the tendency of Mr. Glaistone's speech. Though and thirdly, ho h o p e d th at the income tax would not bert think th a t we are en titl e d t o as k f or peace estimates, and his arguments were inconsistent, his object was clear raised to 7d. in the pound until they knew that the expe that those estimates should be the foundation of what in enou g h; it was to induce the house to throw themselves into diture of the country indispensably required that such an future years will be our establishment. (Hear.) Every one the hands of himself and his new associates. Bat it must addition should be made. Such was the practical good has said, ever since the question of peace was under discus- be a fearful panic which would lead the house to do that. which ho believed would arise from that discussion. On sion, ever Bimini t was known that the conferences at Paris It would require tenfold his talent and argumentativ e Friday last the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that it were g o i ng t o b eg i n , th a t a cons id erable time must elapse, skill t o i n d uce th e coun t ry to lose sight of the obliquity of would be impossible for them to bind themselves to the and that a year would not be too much for Government to his political principles. (Cheers.) nn hat side of the possibility or probability even, of Parliament limiting the reduce those establishments which were necessary in wa r , h ouse h e was regarded by many es ancandid enemy— income tax to 1860. Those were alarming words, and the to reduce the number of men in the army and navy, B u t, on th e o th er as a treacherous friend, and in spite of hit house ought to take the earliest opportunity of dispersing the war being over, the prospect of peace being before us, I appeal to humanity, first for unnscesserily keeping up the that alarm by adopting the resolution of his right hon. say I know not why we should not say what is good for duty on sugar, and then in favcur of its reduction, he friend. Unless the comp ac t o f 18 53 were adhered to, the 1858-9 is good for 1857, w hy we s h ould not come to a con- would find that the people of thiscountry considered him as confidence of the people of this country in that house w ou ld elusion as to what ou r p eace estimates should be, I shall an unsafeguide and a most unscrcpulo usparasan. (Ch eers .) b e ma t er i a ll y s h a k en if not destroyed. It was under those listen with great interest to the statements which may be Mr. WHITESIDE was opposed to the retardation of the circumstances. and feeling strongly that they needed some made by the Minister of the Crown as to the necessity for reduction of duty on tea and star, and considered such assurance with reference to the financial arrangements that these estimates. As they stand at present, if we are to fol- a propos a l a breach of common tonesty. The income tax the engagements entered into in 1853 should be carried out, low the estimates, I believe as to the arithmetical cense- i n Irel an d was odious and revoleng to every men in the that he supported the resolution of his right hon. friend. quences there is no difference, some 200,000/. or 300,000/. country. The amendment proposed to pledge the house He supported that resolution because in effect it amounted may be in dispute, but we shallll be nearly 5,000,000/. short that it should be got rid of in 1860 ; but this the Chancel- to an instruction to the committee of ways and moans that in the course of the next w three years. Well, Ido not l or o f th e Exchequer refused to accept. He thought that no budget would be satisfactory to that house and the think it is a very reasonable thing to ask for th e estimates Mr. Gladstone's speech on Friday night wasperfectly con- country unless it secured by proper adjustment of the for the next two years—l d o n o t thi n k the Chancellor of sistent with his financial statement i 1853. it was said revenue and the expenditure, the fulfilment of the pledge the Exchequer is bou n d t o gi ve th em ; an d, indeed, if he he had pointed out objections, tut had not shown how they so solemnly given, and which could not be departed from had been disposed to act an ambiguous part, nothing would were to be removed ; nor was he called upon to do this un- without a breach of faith, and a violation of all the prin have been more easy than to say, ' I mean to cutdown two less " called in." (Laughter.) Be (Mr. Whiteside) adopted ciples of honour. millions in the army, one million in the navy, and half a most of the statements of Lord John Russell, but those Mr. CARDWELL could not reconcile the speeches million in the civil service estimates, and th ere y facts would le a d him to an opposite conclusion. ou have it." Why, every one knows that such a statement would not which had been delivered by the right hon. gentleman op be worth the piece of paper on which it was written, in ig- nodoubtthatthe right, Si F. BARING said he had that the resolution had not been well considered,as Sir called ' hon. gentlemen were into office they would soon showed norance of what would be the circumstances of the future show the house how to cure the finance difficulty. All it secured no plain and intelligible result. When they years • to which it would apply. Before we go into these es- these difficulties would then disappear, and the finances of talked about a probable deficiency, or a surplus in a future ternates we are bound to have an account laid before us by the country would then become in a much more prosper the Minister of the Crown, with a statement of what is our our condition than those hon. gentlemen now seemed to bear uihe in ciumeisntciln that,question wa s that i mustd they nidependmean n r o e ri . situation, foreign and domestic. Parliament has a right to think possible. He gave his cordial assent to the propo know what are the prospects of the country with regard to sals of th e Chancellor of the Exchequer as he understood just sat down said that their first object was the reduction t yt r he e ea n re C x h tP m hee e ny n d t imt o uu r rse n t• ot ? The rightgentleman who had foreign powers—how we stand with regard to those two them There wee a singular omission in the amendment of the war 9 , 1. Why, that would be secured by going ill to powers with whom we are at present in hostilities. They of the right hon. gentleman the member for Buckingham- committee ; because, having removed the war tax thereby, have a right to know those circumstances before they vote shire—that was his intention with reference to the' war they could then proceed advantageously with the expeudi away the money of the people. I cannot accept the expla- income tax. Bat that was a most important point with ture. Unless they could bring down the military expendi nation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer with regard to• regard to the budget. Did be intend that that should be ture of the country to between 17,000,0001. and 18,000,0001., local burdens, that they have to a great extent been placed taken off or not taken off ? Unless they told the Chan- they must be in a deficiency. Had they a fair prospect on the estimates of late years, becaese by far the greater cellor of the Exchequer what was the decision of the of accomplishing that object ? Lord Melbourne's esti part of th eta au were placed in the estimates before house on that question, it was impossible for any man to mates were fourteen millions and a half. Sir Robert 1853, and the estimates of 1853 included the sums to which trame a financial arrangement. How came it that the Peel's when our relations with France were not satisfac the Chancellor of the Exchequer objects. I have therefore right hon. gentleman had not stated his intention in regard tory, and when the Oregon question caused much anxiety, only to say, that now, with regard to the question inns- to that matter ? The same remark applied to the speech were 17 millions. Lord Derby's were 16, and the expendi diately before the house, I shall be ready to go into corn- of the right hon. gentleman the member for the University b ore under Lord Aberdeen's, the last year of peace, swelled naittee of ways and means with the Chancellor of the Ex- of Oxford. He had not heard that hon. gentleman on any by anticipation of the coming war, barely. exceeded 16 chequer, keeping in view the policy, the justice, the good occasion give an opinion as to whether or not he was pre- millions. Was it then hepoless at a time of profound faith, of looking to the cessation of the income tax in 1860. pared to take off the war income tax, (Hear.) His im- peace to reduce tho military expenditure. Lot those who I willenot require larger concessions in respect to duties, to ression was that it was the intention of the right hon thought so vote for an increased tax. If they could as customs, or excise, or other taxes in the year 1857; but it is not for that reason that I would give up the prospect for P entleman to continue the war tax for at least another year. • sums a reduction for 1853-9, he could not see why they could not effect such reduction this year, when the expen the future. When in the course of last century some emi , rent scientific men were sent from Paris in order to met. If that were net the intention of the right hon, gentleman opposite, why did he not state it in his resolution ? Was diture was entirely under their control. It was a true there some little difficulty in the two right hon, g maxim that of all plans the best was to spend little, and sure a degree, when they had traversed Lapland andreach pitable sea, they put up a stone with the lines: men— a w e • the late war to show that it oil an inhos • tle was tht o stools between whom the war incons • 3 taxgem to fall to the ground—oming to an understanding in . T th h e ey be h s a t d of th a e ll ex ta pe x r e i s en w ee as ef th a t which was the smallest. Sistimushic tandem noble Übi defuit orbi s . respect to each oth er ' s v i ews on t h a t po i nt? If the house was not great military establishments which made the did not intend to affirm the budget of the Chancellor of the strength of a country. We had a small establishment, That sir, cannot ba our position. I trust that the extension Exchequer, the war income-tax was a subject on which at France and Russia had large ones • yet, in the crisis of the of commerce, theadoption °fright principles of finance, will any r a t e it ought to b e frank and explicit—if they did 1,01, war, Russia was impoverished, and ' Franco even suffering, make a continued progress; I trust that the Chancellor of i n t en d to take of th e t ax let the country clearly under- while England emse withsthe, the occasion. What a moral the Exchequer may be f o r ce d to t eonn ne hi s wish es for the stand what it was they did intend to do. He thought be- lesson we might learn from this ! For those reasons ho moment to the present budget; I trust that the country will fore considering the resolution of the right hon. gentleman should vote for going into committee of ways and means. see that that which has already produced such glorious it would be as well to ascertain what was the real position Mr. M. GIBSON expressed his concurrence generally in fruits may in future have still greater results. I rejoice to of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in what state the sentiments of the noble lord the member for the city of hear from him,'and I think whatever party hon. gentlemen their finances were. H e thou g ht the figures he would lay London, and supposed his suggestions might be taken in the may belong to, we must all rejoice to hear from him such before the house would no t b e very far wrong. Now let light of a friendly communication to the Government to in prosperous accounts, especially of British shipping, at the them consider the reduction which the budget involved. duce there to alter their policy. But the noble 1 net finished his present time. I trust that further measures of the same The first item was th a t o f m a lt, on which there would be speech by recommending the house to vote for that policy. wise and liberal kind, measures founded on n o selfish ad- a loss of 2,200,000/. Then if the pled os were carried out And what was the question the house was called upon vantage, upon no restrictive policy, upon no envious jea- in relation to the war income-tax they would take off to decide ? The Chancellor of the Exchequer wished the lousy . ot foreign nation s , b u t up on a poli c y whi c h begin- 2,000,000/. more in reduine that tax from 7d. to sd. On house to go into committee of ways and moans, in order rung with wisdom from yourselves ends with liberality, to impose an income tax of 7d. for the next three years— tea there wool I be a reduction '. to the extent of 1,500,000/. ; justice, and bounty to allhnankind, I trust that that policy on coffee, of 135 ,000/. ;on sugar, of 750,0001. He con- to increase the duties upon tea and sugar—for the purpose which my right hon. friend says was inaugurated 15 years of providing funds for defraying the expenditure for the from that 15, TEcehxieveheidnegetothim'eartewaolaflsltaphsietedryeaediictions which the Chancellor of the ago—l care not about the date, but I should put it further public service during the current year. Tee right hon. back, and should not forget the illustrious name of Huskis gentleman opposite (Mr. Disraeli) objected to follow the son--I trust that that policy thus inaugurated has still course marked out by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, taking achieve, and that its success will ' greater to , induceo c to r i , t o had make ita m wouldou nte amounted bringt amountedo t 7 o 2 d , 1 0 00 5 w ' n 0 :50 , O t o h 6o o o / 0 1 .. 0 - ,-; -- 1 . • and submitted a resolution, by way of emendinent. Now, the nations of the earth to follow our exa•nple, and thus come for the ensuing year to 57,500,000/. Their expendi before the house consented to go into the matter suggested unite us all iu the bonds of peace, of commerce, and of a t udreefi, deficiency n s stated, erl, staringfor 1857 m -8 i w n a t s h 6 e s f ,o c o e o o , O f 0 8 0 , 0 /. -- 7 t , h e r e . wa, s r t e h v u e s_ 0 '0 008/ of in that resolution, it must brat express an opinion, aye or amity. (Cheers.) no, as to the financial scheme of the Government. If the rue ; but that was not all because if they proceeded on Mr. BENTINCK, in a speech condemning the income to the next year without any proposition being math by house should decide against that scheme, it might then be tax, said he was net prepared to vote either- for the motion the Chancellor of the Exch n e y qur, they would then have a ' fairly called upon to express an opinion upon the substitute of the Chancellor of the Exc or that of the right (facie:Ay of 9 ,0)0,000/. That was no common case, and proposed by the right hon. gentlernau. He would put the gerdtd the speech of the right hen. matter into the smallest possible compass. He conceived hon. gentleman the member chequerkinghamshire• As re- he thought the Minister who had those difficulties to meet .University of Oxford, hethat those gentlemen who were fevourable to idling for the ( Mgr.enlttleentutainnctkil;; tro m ug b h e t r twhaesy°rfietfileticettel4 ON 000/ to the estimates for the situ. and navy beyond he had suggested a th -) d t o t t h h a e t greatest e n y e consideration, o t n h s i e d e e r n a a ti s o g n e , mente especially w hi Whit when h e , , . .. the amount in the year pnecedine the war—those eentle . i . timed difficulties with reference to would have to fulfil wore not of his own contra.cting Bt the budget without s❑ r 4 ' men who were in favour of jure - wising the duties on tee and b n isges , -mg a remedy. After consider- what was he to do if he had to meet those engagements, the court adopted this year, of asking the house to and he was not allowedto raise revenue on some articles on sugaw—those tho were in favour of a :It-AN:M such. in . . ' etm iee tax forth© tt' ' -vents p, y ne me nex urea yeara— veto ."Ilium the proposition of the Chancellor of th The right hon, gentleman ha .d his °pi e Exchequer as teas. e . . before they had had an opportunit • yor examiniee the oat'. mon, fairly and manfully met the difficulties by which he , '• forseine into committeef -e•• I ( Year, hear.) e ) o wa i s an means. ea.. 'Hates, he moved the adjournment of the debate'' • until after was Corr ounded. But they were told that in doing so he rho3o, on the contrary, who considered the estimates too the house ha i agreed • a high—who thought the taxes on tea and sugar ought not to in committee of supply to the army, had abandoned the principles of free trade. Now, coming navy, and ordnance estimates. ecceeetely to figures, was it true that the Chancellor of the be increased, and doubted whether sevenpence should be placed on ineome—would vote against going iuto commit- Mr. M. MILNES condemned the speech of the right Exchequer had abandoned his opinions of free trade. tee. That was the 'obvious parliamentary way of expres hon. gentleman the member for the University of Oxford, (Hear, hear) ? Had he not adhered to direct taxation with sine an opinion on the financial schouseof a government as whose policy of 1853 was the cause of the present difficul- a view to remit the duties on such articles as tea, coffee, a whole. If hon. gentlemen wanted to see a practical re ties that had been raised to the Chancellor of the Excite- and sugar, as far as the finances of the country would al suit, they would not accede to the suggestions thrown out quor's statement. It therefore showed that it was bett er low him ? He (Sir F. Burin;) was told the prospect of by the noble lord the member for the City of London and for Chancellors of the Exchequer ta confine their policy to getting rid of the income tax in 1360 was by the finan dial the right hon. gentleman the member for Portsmouth (Sir the current year rather than deal in the prospectiv H e scheme very remote. Now he was prepared to admit, both F. Baring.) He had never seen any successfnl effort at re trusted that the reduction would not be carried too • f fur political far reasons as well as on account of good faith, suction s . and again impair the resources of the country, should that it would be desirible, if possible, to get rid of the in- 'batty of proposing such reductions, and informing them circumstances again render it necessary for her to take un come tax in 1860. It was net a peace tax, nor was it ea ui- si erne of expenditure and taxation i th• • • . generally that their sch arms. s 'ably levied. • and he was troll aif it did not come off of parliament. Now came the did n?t, meet the approval Sir. J. T. TYRELL had never seen so strange a state of in 1860, the should not get i se t a 11. But let them u> generally was he so much opposes} to theplan of the Chan see things as rep/elect political perties since he entered the house derstand the position in which they should be placed in justified r '• e 'his cellor of the Exchequer as to be inrectwein e h in the year 1830. It was a most extreordinary spectacle to 1861. In 1861 they would have smug falling in from the vote against it On the whole, e conscient i ously i r t be noble so many right hon. gentleman sitting ou so many dif- reduction on the interest of the National Debt to the ex- Bayed the speech of the right hon. gentleman ie. a rope ferent benches. (Laughter.) In the firstplace there wasthe tent of 2,100,000/. Then in the same year there would grade and reactionary complexion about it,. t (Hear.) h noble lord the member for the City prched up behind the cease payments on account of the war to the amount of right hon. gentleman talked of the roe grit yof the ern noble leader of the house. (Laughter.) Than there were 1 ,128,000/., or, comparing it with the charges for the year try, of the increased exports and imports, in order to s i r: . right hon. gentlemen sitting below the gangway, of gre a t 1858-9, they would have 2,500.000/., those sums logo- try, the burden about to be imposed could be bona boastedw.,of ability and official habits. There was on that (the opposi. ther amounted to 4,700,000/. The amount which would out much pressure. The right hon. gentleman tion) side the right hon, gentleman the member for Back e not be chargeable in 1861. Now, that was a large the foreign trade, but he said not a word of the condition . with his brilliant talents ; and there were about him many Part of the 7,000,009/., which was the amount of reet bed of the labour in; of the home trade and of the g y , lion. gentlemen of great assiduity, perseverance and deter- the income tax to bo remitted in that year. in addition classes. And that was a remarkabe omission, becaur by miziation. All these hon, and right hon. gentlemenseemed to that, the tax on succession had not yet reached its his pnancia,l scheme he proposed tolllaw a groat portion of ready to fall upon the noble lord (Lord Palmerston) the maximum. They might reckon on 60 or 70,00 1. from his increased revenue from the labo,,ring classes, for tea and moment they fancied he had made a mistake, bat he (Sir J. that source. If they added those sums together, they must sugar were the two art' e es of consumption next ' • the very Tyrell) had the misfortune—misfortune, that was, sitting admit that the task to be performed in 1861 was not cpri o necessaries of life. Although the resources of the country where he did—to think that the noble viscount as yet had so formidable as sacrificing at one stroke 7,000,000/. of re were vast, arid although it hael been able to speed 76,000,9001. made no mistake at all. Therighthou. gentleman theinem- venue. He admitted that there might be a deficit next year in carrying on the war, he believed that at the present nio bar for Oxford University heel entered the house this see- but he was at a 1- a s to see how they were to enter ie to such sion in a most gladiatorial spirit, He would h ar dl y p erm it an arrangement in voting the estimates of the present year, meat a great body of the agricultural labourers and to haeics had but little mewls, t i t l es au asin4 the necessaries the Speaker to take the chair before he showed himself in- The Chancellor of the Exchequer ha I said that we were not of life, of purchasing those ar which were subjected to dined, by the power of his eloquence, "to make the worse at present on a peace footing, and it was probable that next i appear the better C 31180." He (Sir J. Tyrell) etas one of those year the expenditure might be reduced to such au arneunt as . the customs duties. lie had be m told of an agricultural labourer with a wife an 1 fivechildren residing in thecounty who thought there had been a gigantic fraud—af course, would bring it within the revenue of the next year. Ther a of Suffolk who was unable to purchase more than an ounce he meant in a Parliamentary sense- (laughter and cheers) was very fair reason for believing that the expenditure of tea p-r week, and yet the right hon. gentleman proposed —attempted upon gentlemen who sat in that house. Ho might be reduced in future years. (Hear.) Ho believed ~ to add to the price of that ) eor man's tea. The mechanic (the hon. baronet) Lad tread with surprise— and be c t• I that it was very much the best policy to relieve ihe er ain y coun ay earning 15, per week would, under the present scale of disagreed with almost every word of it—the Conservative as much as possible from the burdens of heavy war estab duties, have to pay from 39. to 4s. per week. (Hear.) These article in the , Quarterly Review; headed "The Prospects of lishments. (Hear, hear.) Reductions in such establishments were the classes on which the right hon. gentleman pro the Country. • The publication of that article had been for ought, how ever , t o h e made with considerable care and carp posed to lay additional burdens, and whom in the course of a month; and there were marks about it which wer e c on - lion, lest the probability would ba that the seeing would his speech he had omitted altogether to mention. But the elusive in his mind as to its parent age , It l au d e d the eight be more apparent than real, and would entail ultimate loss . •, . right hon. gentleman had iutroduced other matters wholly hon. gentlemen below the gangway for their great ability on the country. titheh that the Governmeut might irrelevant. Was it necessary for the right hon, gentleman in their official capacity. No doubt those gentlemen formed fairly be credited fo reductions which they had made, a to say anything about the paper duty ? The fire isurance a powerful section in the house, but fortunately —or un- and that they mus t be received as an earnest of their fu duty —or the duties on wine ? With respect to the paper fortunately for them--they had no following in the cot ture intentions on the subject. It might be asked, why not duty he thought the right hon. gentleman had taken a mere try. (Cheers.) The right hon. gentleman bit he was the at once effect these reductions? He was perfectly ready to exciseinan's view of the question. The right hon. gentleman's author of the article—of course hugged his pet budget of go into the question, and he tsted that as men of business opinion was that books at a high price would not be mate -1853. Now that house had in it a great number of Chan- the house wou ld cons ent to go r e to the estimates. Abstract really reduced, referring probably to 3-volume works, or tellers of the Exchequer, (Laughter.) He did not know such as that before the house, did but little works like ItPCulloch's Dictionary. When Sir R. Peel pro whether the noble lord the member for the City had filled good, and resolutions,he thought it would be much better if the house Posed the repeal of the excise duties on glass, it was said that that office, but he had filled almost every other, Lau . h g . would ener ractically into the consideration of the best decanters and glasses could not ricebtai . at lower prices. ter.) Well, on the first night there debate ,in h'moans was a 4 . ,* g such economy as would admit of the But the mere reducti 'on in the pof particular books was many of these eminent members took a part ; ad he (Sir taking off the burden of the income tax in 13'30. (Hear.) not the only view taken by advocates of the repeal of the ex- J. Tyrell) must say that when he heard the speech of the Mr. WALPOLE agreed with the noble lord the htse duly on paper any more then it was the view taken with right hon, gentleman the member for Bucks, he felt, as a mem b er f or t h e c ity of London in the main objects respect to glass. They wished for the repeal of the duties be humble Conservative, considerable alarm. (Laughter.) The which he haul in view, and the means by which he cause they believed they stood in the way of the extension of noble lord the loafer of the house had been accused of being sought to accomplish it, but differed most completely sl importantmanufacturesebecause th, ypi even ted eruploymeut fond of war, and of getting this country into scraes • but from him in the conclusion at which the noble lord had aunt tended to increase pauperism and crime. And he would remind the house of the reception the noble lord arrived respecting the propriety of going into committee though the right hon. gentleman would sneer at the paper met with at Manchester. (Hear.) With the exception of on the estimates, He thought it would be the reverse duty being a tax on knowledge a 'duty amounting to 80 the hon, member for that city, and one or two other gem- of all sound policy for the house to agree to the im per cent, on an or.linary school 'book or copy book, was in tlemen, the Poeee Society seamed to have disappeared, position of the income tax of 7d. instead of scl , in the pound reality a tax on knowledge, and was inconsistent with the (Hear.) That party had also been silent on the present cc- for the years 1858, 1859, and 1860, without knowing the efforts that were made to promote education. (Hear.) H© casion, but he trusted the house would hear their views expenditure of the country. The expectation of the peo p le no >v came to consider the right hon gentleman's resolution. before the debate closed. He supposed their silence was oc- of this country was that the war 9d, of the income tax He went seine way with him, but he contended that if casioned by a feeling that they wore opposed to the opinion should be repealed on the conclusion of the war. That ex they sanctioned the scheme proposed they would be laying of the whole country, He (the lion. baronet) completely Pectation had been fulfilled by the announcement of the the foundation of a deficiency in future years. They agreed with the sentiments expressed by the late ea r , Bro. Chancellor o f th e Exchequer of his intention to repeal that should remember that they were settling- what should be t t r i r on, who he regretted no donor to see amongst them— portion of the obnoxious tax, and he trusted that there the peace expenditure. It was quite clear the Government ( ear)— d :rid who on the noble lord's visit to Manchester, ex- would be no nec e ssity for re-imposing that tax for many did not contemplate any groat reduction in the military e p f re h s i s s e n opinion that he (Lord Palmerston) deserved well years to come. The total repeal of the income tax in 1860 expenditure of the country. It had always been the prac . his pn forcoming,forwarcl when he had been deserted was another e xp ec t a tion in which the public were fairly rice at the conclusion of a war to endeavour to increase the bya..former colleagues. (Cheers.) H e (si r j, Tyr e n)h ope d entitled to indulge. He was fully aware of the groat diffi military establishments beyond what they stood at pre with t before the house went into these nip-cheeso estimates culty which attended upon a transition state from ' war to vious to the war, and beyond what the necessities of a with which they were threatened, they would be fa voure d pe ace , an d th e diffi cu lty with which war w with the views of the gallant defender of Kars, and the could be placed upon a peace footin But establishments had 12 monthspeace establishment required. That attempt was made in the present instancy; but if the house did its duty, as it gallant gentleman who sat beside him (Sir W. Codrington,) passed since the conclusion of the g e * ac e t and the Govern• had done on former occasions, they would compel the Go- The late Duke of Wellington, when told that certain ment had been warned of the necesPsit parties had deserted him, replied, " They all do that at to the systems of economy which had existed for a speedy return vernment to bring down the expenditure to a peace stand: existed previous to aid. They might talk of implied compacts, but, they could some time, and some of them never come back again.” the war. In our naval and inilitery establishments what not bind future Parliaments; and if they were to lay down Now, it would appear that there were right hon. and hon, was required was a system which' would combine efficiency any arrangement of that kind, they had so lost their gentlemen who were now very anxious to come leffihk. with economy. It was the want of thea system combining ; character with the public that their promises for (Loud laughter and cheers.) Not only their appetite for such qualities which had led to all disasters which the the future would not be believed. (Hear, hear, bear.) debate, but their appetite for the good things of office, was army had undergone in the Crimea , What was required Bat it was quite clear that if they sanctioned the present waxing worn. force. The increase scale of expenditure, that sanction should be quoted by the of the right hon gentleman (Mr. Gladstone) had left him in the estimates for the army 3 navy, as copared with Government against them when the attempt was made to (Sir 3.llTyrerl) in a perfectly incomprehensible position. those of 1853, was not less lia 1,000,0001. In the esti- enforce reduction. In 1816 the great Whig party did not (Loud laughter.) He confessed that pro hac vice, his na• mates of the civil service there t han been also a m most ext F a ' wait for two or three years after the war before theycalled tural leader would be the noble lord the member for the ordinary increase There was no doubt included in the in- upon the Minister to bring down the expenditure to the City; but clouds, heavily charged with the electricit f d ' • y o crease estimates of 10,000,0001. for the present year pro- requirements of peace. The noble lord (Palmerston) was electoral influences, lowered so darkly over every part of vision for the repayment of 2 , 0 00,000/. of Exchequer then Secretary W •andthe at War , the house, that he scarcely knew what course to pursu e , Bonds, a mode of raising strum hich his hon. friends London, Lord Lansdowne,Lord. - member forßrougham, He should therefore vote for the amendme n t, (Che ers .) on his side of the house hadstrongly objected to on the Sir J. Macintosh, and all the leaders of the Whigs urged Mr. WILKINSON also supported the amendment, re. ground that it would entail the necessity of paying off the upon him the very year after the close of the French war marking that it was not very clear how the house had money at a time when it would be mostinconyenient— to bring down at once the expenditure to the altered cir come to be engagedin this anticipatory financial discussion, and also the sinking fund, and the interest of the war loans cumstances of the country. The Government answered, The right hon. gentleman !Mr. Gladstone) had gone iota but still beyond this there was a very large margin in which as they did now, "We cannot immediately ,a go back to a the subject of the estimates ; but that was not the qu ote . considerable reductions might be effected. He thought peace establishment after accept t wale'. That reason, how diture how tion before the house. (Hear, hear.) Nor was his arg u . that there existed a moral and virtual compact between ever,. the house refused to accept s nor c believed, if the (Mr, lE• ment at all conclusive. It did not follow that the exp en . that house and the country that the income tax should be Gibson) accept it now. He diture next year would be as great as was now f o u n d t o b e entirely taken off in 1860. The compact then made in Id find that the came Governme nt military eat lb when pressed, they would e h Russ . es i ld necessary; and the revenue might conslierably recover 1853 would not have a legal force like that made at the lishinents that were sufficient before t e ian e w a a r r would itself, by its natural elasticity, before the period arriv e d Union of Scotland or of Ireland but there were circurn be sufficient now that the war was over. (II , madeate) when the right hon, gentleman said the re wou ld b e a d e fi c i t. stances connected with the arrangement then made which He thought the right hon. gentleman had clearly a thescaeo out (Hear, hear.) For his own part he (Mr. Wilkinson) would made it imperative upon the House of Commons to abide his case, that if they were to acquiesce in 1 have preferred the retention of another ld. or 2d. of the by the terms of the cthen agreed to. The consi ompact 1 penditure now proposed by the Government, . a that x.- s which i ncome ta x , s o as to allow the reduction of the duties on ar- derations given on th e pa r t o f the pe ople in that arrange t ould be should be adhered to during the en t shin c g ro y a e s aa, t e ax w ee and, tides of ordinary consumption. He would also h ave p re . ment, were the extension of the income ;ax to Ireland, its necessary in 1858 and 1859 to vote ferred to see the duties on paper and i nsuranc „ removed, imposition upon all incomes between 1001. and 150/. a year, Oxford had said, they ; would as the right hon. ,member for .. , .., even at the expense of retaining a portion of th e t ax on and the consent to the tax upon successions. These bur • t oic w tah was com then see a gradual reversal of tha p 1 Yr n incomes. At the same time he thought the Chancellor of dens had been borne b one party to the compact, but menced in 1842 by the late Sir _ R. Peel. (" Oh, oh," from rho Excheque r had b een ma d e th e su bj ec t o f a great d eal now the Chancellor oft he Exchequer stood forward to con said, Mr. the Treasury benches,) The right hoe. gentleman of unnecessary objurgation ; for with the exceptions he tend that there was nothing binding in the arrangement , G o vernment in 1860 to carry speech place it in the power of the..incomet Hehy had named th e b u d ge t me t w ith hi s a pp rova l. (H ear. ) then entered into. The right hon, member for Portsmouth 853 and remit the tax. out the compact of 1 , Mr. LIDDELL h as li s t ene d w ith grea t p l easure t o th e and others had t o , The shore was no legal force in they could make between speech of the right hon. gentleman the m em b er f or B uc k s; the compact of 1853 ; but he (Mr. Walpole) felt strongly believed that by , no arrangement 1 AR tromote the true interests this and 1860 cape a but he confessed to feeling a great deal of a pp re h ens i on w h en that the equities of the case were strongly in favour of they P to accomplish that object. the country, could the right hon. gentleman spoke of reductions. A s t o th e the abolition of the tax at the time then fixed upon. hope re-adjust the tax to make it (Hear, hear.) They might speech of theright hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Gladstone), This was not merely a Pecuniary matter—the honour in its application, but in his view it would be a wonderful as it was for ability he must acknowledge th a t of Parliament was at st k a e ; and if there was one thing . • more equal thatportion of t financial blunder to abandon our he was not at times able clea'rl to understand the • ht which more than an y e right other gave stability to their proceed- great . thought, was more than the affluent hon. gentleman's arguments. When the right hon. gentle- ings, it was the confidence which the people reposed in taxes, which, he contribute' to the requirements of the classes ought . to man talked of the budget of 1853 ho would remind the its decisions. What were thestrongest arguments ad- state. He did not say they should continue an exorbi house of the position in which we stood at the breaking duced against repealing the grant to Maynoo- ? it taut income tax, but wouldmaintain ho out of the war. We sent out an army but that army not that the grant bad been f 11 itr duced in an orma y n o with rate income tax as the . the interests very keystone of our commercial periehed because we hail not sufficient stores accum ulat e d act of Parliament, and that faith must be kept the essential to prosperity, and as e beforehand • , and when at last, by dint of reckless extra- Publie. The erg that which • 1 were good for one su e ware 1 b • eclasses, H therefore, d as well as of the a aurine e, va e rance we provided s , tores, the mischief was done. He equally suited to the other. (Hear ) He agreed that there partied himself by any compact in reference to the therefore solemn] y protested against falli ng b ac k on th e were disturbing causes which• interfere 6' with the refused to bindin 1860, and would much rather, if the removal of the tax estimate of 1853. If the bitter experience of the late war fulfilment of a compact. The might a disturbing dispensed with, remit an equivalent sum taught us nothing else it ought to have taught us the folly cause, and had it continueduntilwar was such 1860 it would have been amount could be of the indirect taxes than partwith the ' to -' income tax. He of keeping up au insufficient military and naval establish- impossible to hal) complied with the terms of the agree- objected to holding out the country expectations which ment. He did not think that he should ham per the Go- ment of 1853. But he wanted to know why in the year would never be fulfilled, and he still more retr year objected knew . . . vernment or impede the services of the country b affirm- y 1857, before they knew what the • expenditure was to bo, • Jested to be the advocate of a policy which he believed t i ing the resolution, they were to be called upon to continue a tax which by law - prejudicial to the best interests of the be . Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE criticised the resolution of Mr. they were bound to repeal if they could. (Hear.) The im- Ishouldwith the right hon, community. Though he veto Disraeli, and contended that a surplus could not be spread ition of he additional twopence in the pound could not ,• u harnshire against the Speaker leaving the chair, he by possibility facilitate th e Bu" 1 g with h' in the other proposition. (" ' over future years. At the close of Mr. Gladst ' - ono s speech departure of the tax in 18 0 0 '' • could not go nu he could not but ask what the right hon. gentleman really The abolition of the tax by the proposition of the Chan- oh," and laughter.) Thera was nothhi • • ' g inconsistent in cellor of the Exceequer was wanted ? In the course of nearly four hours he had raiseaan absolute impossibility. in this for there were in fact two distinct oositions objection after objection, difficulty after difficulty, but it The proposed (Hear.) tax of 7d. in the pound instead of involved, and, holding the opinionshe did,what other sd. would produce 7,h -00,000/. instead of 5,000,030/. at the led to no practical result, beyond, perhaps, exercising some course could he take than te vote against the Speaker of his younger constituents in dialootics. Ho could not reduced rate, and it would be far more difficult to provide leaving the chair, and afterstearde hen the right hoe. imagine that Mr. Gladstone really believed the serious a substitute for seven millions than five millions of re- gentleman's motion was put . ' w substantive motion, charge which he brought against tho Government of Mean. venue at the . end of 1850. (Hear, hear.) He thought voting against it? (" Oh " laughter aaasu from the Treasury , and cloning the principles of free trade. Nothing could be he could see great practical good that, the debate had benches.) Hon. gentle benches might more contrary to the course ureued by the present Chan- already produced. t. He could perceive an altered tone with think this somewhat me°on th . e T h a i . y a i n s , ur but it often hap cellor of the Exchequer. It was a strange argument from a reference to the es imate, as origin oily proposed, and also pened, he believed th peculiar in found themselves sepa with reference to the taxation about to be placed on the . , te , t even they .. . , friends, right hon. gentleman who got the country into a war when rated in the • div . • mon Tubby from their political as he • was in the Government, had then left the -Government, It did not r • • people. aquae any great. sagacity to pre was the case the other evening the noble lord the when diet the amount'of good that would follow this discus and had then done all in his power to lower the lofty cony- diet for Tiverton found himself with some thir,teen or , age and generous feeling of the country. (Cheers and "N , No pion. First, that the tea duty would not be increased ; i;sont h cathUates wo u ld not stead as th ey wcro ; fourteen of his most ardent supporters voting with 310 •1 Ile Was the house 9 at the times akci mud wort that secondly, t a properly named, for I r i s h men h a d no money to bribe el ir - liobe7t Mr. DISRAELI remarked that he never expressed an and knew nothing about the subject to be inquired i t satisfac- wish of the kind. He was quite astonished at the course He was only sorry to see an Irishman upon it at all. a anxiety, Government had taken. He was not aware that any gentle- The motion was then agreed to, and the house adjoul a ex Pendi - man on that side of the house h a d sugges t e d suc h a course, at one o'slock. e, swelled and he entirely disapproved of it. seeded 16 profound Sir C. WOOD said then of course he must beg the right Naval and Military Intelligence.' hose who hon. gentleman's pardon. The right hon. member for the ----e---- could as- University of Oxford suggested it. [Mr. Gladstone was un- The Dako of Cambridge, as the General Command why they deretoed to express his dissent from this statement.] There in -Chief, attended by his Aide-de-Camp and the Adjnt. he *aspen- General, lea town yesterday morning in order to maki seemed to be a general concurrence on the subject, and his inspection of the whole of the troops in camp at Alders[ as a true ittle, and noble friend (Lord J. Russell) got up and said they would His Royal Highness returned to town in the eveningr . smallest, postpone going into committee of supply. That being so he of fa Yesterday eofsyotareirtdjuhaeayr Marines purpose es o oo l in e f h b wi a o t ia t t n a o l e i ns o s n tihn o eg f pt t ah h rea e dp e e r- lia sr t eo h nu a toa m dt i • so d livid s ec " w that it thought they were bound to adhere to the course they had made the taken. Having listened with some attention to the whole of . . lishment, silver medal, with a gratuity of 151., which had b the debate, 'he must say he never heard a motion the cis of the awarded by the Lords of the Admiralty to Cole Se suffering, grounds for which were so feeble. He congratulated his Frederick J. Mills, Royal Marines, for long service a moral right hon friend on the vote of the right hon. member for meritorious conduct. The battalion having been fori orisons he Manchester, who plainly told them he disentangled the into close column by Limit-Col. Anderson, the medal d means. presented to Sergeant Mills by Col. Second -Command vote from the merits of the question. If the object of the aerally in E. Rea, Who said it was always a source of pleasure to 1 ho o f Motion were to bring the hon. member for Bucks and the sent medals of this character, for although many men Ni :en in the right hon. member for the University into office together, decorated with medals for various services, yet but a entto in- . h e cou ld un d ers t an d i t, b ut i f it had any other object it paratively few had rece i ve d one f or l ong service and g fished hi s seemed to him to be nothing in the world but a simple hin- conduct; the medal would therefore be looked upon i `ledliey. , . certificate that the wearer had served his Queen and co , orance of business . In committee of ways and means the try with honour and distinction. Sergeant Mills has b upon ished the expenditure might be settled, and the taxes adapted to upward:J. of 21 years in the service, 17 of which he in order meet it, but instead of that, the house was wasting time been a non-commissioned officer. He served in SE a years- in the discussion of abstract resolutions. Itevas said that under the late Lieut.-General Sir John Owen, KA; )purpose the benefit of the discussion had been shown in the altered a an in d e a d g a a l i . n in e China, for which he is decorated w o for thea l so served in the Baltic ;ht hon. tone of the Government upon the subject of the estimates, en titl es hi m t o a medal. ,_which likes Clow the But he could not see how they could have changed . their The Cumberland, 70, was towed from Chatham to She chequer, tone when they had never expressed an opinion on the mass yesterday by the African and Adder steamers for • Now, subject. The member for the University of Oxf o rd h a d purpose of being m a d e ready for sea. A new vessel, the Mersey, has just nggestect suggested that the Government had changed and diminish- at Chatham , andwh en 4 O, b een commend 1, aye Or If the ea the estimates, since the beginning of the session. That frigates in the navy, her length over all being 336 fe then be was not the fact. Those estimates as they now appeared and burden 3,726 tons. This frigate has been designed ibstitute on the table were ready a week before the meeting of Par. Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy. put the a w y il o l f ba la i s a t o y no o h ar e , d i d s The Racoon, 21, screw-corvette, of 1,462 tons bur& liament, and could have been distributed, if the forms of meeived a co ll m d m es e p n a c t e c d h, i a n n M el ti b rta in g g th etrutP e pre i s e e t : eri nt y lv e nthline the house had allowed, two or three, days before the meet ' beyond ing of Parliament. He believed 'that it would be found Mr. John H. Langley, first class engineer of the 21st ) gentle- that they heel been pr epared so as to combine economy July, 1847,, late c hi e f o f th e Agamemnon, has taken tea and w ith e ff i c i ency. Ile must say that he was astonished at. the his appointment as inspector of machinery to the stet a seven uld vote excitement of manner displayed by the right hon. gentle- squadron of re serve a t Sh eerness (holding a comm a ndo rank). He joins the Edinburgh, 60-gen screw steam-sle man the member for Oxford University on a f ormer occa r, hear.) The Iris, 26 gqns, Captain William Loring, CAI., b rtes too sion. He had used language to the Chancellor of th e E x - Sheerness yesterday in tow of .the steam-vessel Guar it not to chequer that it was hardly decent for one gentleman to use Lieutenant Commander Augustus G. E. Murr a y, for Por ould be towards another. He had lectured his old colleagues, and month, there to await her final orders. eawit- 6, screw s t eam gun-vesse l , left Sheerly ne ma xpres- he had said that he would not allow the,house to go into yes terd ay f or Portsmouth. committee without being fettered by an abstract resolu- The Dragon, 6 guns, paddle-wheel steatt4rigate, b went as deal re- tion which would prevent them giving a free and lure- been placed in the second class steam squadron of reser own out stricted consideration of the subject then to be dire . at Sheerness, under charge of Captain Edward P. Halste lon and cussed. He did trust, however, that the house would re- of the Edinburgh. th (Sir ject both this resolution and that of the right honourable Commander J. S. Keatley was yesterday appointed I ss at re- gentleman ; that they would vindicate their inde- the Board of Admiralty agent of mails on the Australia revea l _ pendence, and that they would refuse to be fettered station. th em •in the exercise of their discretion and their judgment. The 5 5 ... 2 . 1 .e 5a ...., e5e5 ...... , ix a si en Gover nmen t were accuse d b y t h e r i g ht h on. gen tl eman o f me the deserting the budget of 1853. He fully approved of that Country Markets. Chan- budget, and he admitted that at the time it was introduced i ng hi s there was a reasonable ground for the reduction of taxes , s l y h es th a t it contained, and the hope of aboli s hing the in c o me CHELMSFORD -Fns, 20. retro- tax which it held out. B u t was it poss ibl e th a t any bi n d- We had an average supply of wheat on offer to-day, be ) The ng compact could exist in such a matter altogether irre- much of it was in a very damp state, and the trade very dull s. coun- spective of circumstances that might intervene between the the best qualities barely maintaining the last week's prise' o show Pledge and the time for its fulfilment ? It was clear that Spring corn of all sorts without alteration, exceptingbeans ( o with- one Parliament could not bind its successors to follow a all kinds, which must be quoted is cheaper. 3ted o f particular course altogether without regard to the circum- Wheat, white, old, per s. s. a. 0 . edition stances which might arise. The right hoe, gentleman him- qr. 34 72 I Oats, per qr •ouring self, in introducing the budget of 1853, had expressly new 37 71 I Peas, Partridge 4l 4 use by guarded himself against it being supposed that either Par- red, old ..... 32 62 White 39 4 .ti on o f liament or Government would be bound, irrespective of new.... 32 62 Boiling e and 39 s circumstances, to r ep ea l th e i ncome t ax i n 18 60. All that Barley 3 : 44 Dun 37 3 10 very he proposed to do, h e sa id, was t o p l ace P arliament in such Chevalier 33 62 Beans, Tick 35 3 oantry a situation that it mi g ht i n 1560 t a k e off the tax if it Grinding .. ........ 33 44 Harrow ticks 39 4 0,000/. thought fit. So he said then, and so he said now; and so Malt 73 77 1 Mazagan 34 5 nt me- said the Chancellor of the Exchequer. H e was now d o i ng Chevalier ...... ....75 79 id me- nothing to render it difficult or impossible to take off th e Ditto, n 0w. „34 X ease . ssaries tax in 1860. All the difficulty, if there was any, w as i n - ' COLCHES-- TER- FEB. 21. We had a moderate supply of wheat on offer to-day. b ill terposed by the resolution of the right hon. gentleman op 3ted to iltural Polite. The proposal which the Government was about to much of it was in a very bad state and nearly unsaleable. make in committee was to pay off a portion in this year of Dry parcels at last week's prices. The supply of barley D :minty ounce the Treasury bonds, and every portitm they paid off would falling off, and the market closed rather dearer. Beans and put them in a better po s iti on t o p u t an en d t o th e i ncome , posed peas in fair demand for seed at full prices, • ,h„i, tax in 1860. (Hear, hear.) It was therefore incorrect to Prices to-day - were as follow :-Wheat white, 62s to 68 1 1 say that what the Government ,were doing was in the red, 50s to 60s• barley, 44s . to 501 ; small, 36s to 28s ; beans, ale of slightest degree to perpetuate the income tax. He replied - ' These mazagan, 34s to 36s • middle and small, 368 to 40x; peso, to the statement of the right hon. gentleman the member 1 pro- to 383 to 45s : ' 38s to 42 for the University of Oxford as to the economy of Parlia- white, - g re y , - 4. a ir t e e th e e f went during the last 13 years, and said that during that period taxation had increased 31 millions. The right hon. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c., received !holl , eman y gentleman when in office provided for the war ex p ens e s , in the port of London, from the following ports, from ranee partly by direct and pa r tlybyi n di rec tt axa ti on, v i z., i ncome F o b. 16 t o F e b . 21, both inclusive. paper tax, malt, tea, su gar , an d co ff ee , an d i t was on two of those ... mere that an increase w as now p ropose d . It was a w i se discre man,s tion on the part of the right hon. gentleman not to place I l . ll mate- 1o 4 g 1 5 ei ~ ,s ett A 4 ~,,, rs, or the whole expenses of th e war on di rec t taxation, and it 4 x 14:1 was in pursuance of th a t p o li c y th a t th e Chancellor 01 the ---. —.-_._ ___ I pro; Exchequer had quoted Arth ur Y oung , on w h ose pr i nc i p l es r Colchester 62 90 680 - 15 47 406 I that the right hon. gentleman th e mem b er f or th e University Harwich 3l - 1 1250 - - -- 256 r i ce , of Oxford had acted to a greater extent than the Chancellor Leigh - - - - - 10 ---e s ~,,•'s of the Exchequer ; and yet he had told the house that the Malden 1 525 56 e 250 - 900 136 ( 140 policy of the Government was a retrograde one, an 1 that it • _ feel was a departure from the budget of 1853. The tense was with KIRKCALDY is be- FEB. 20. on of told that on a return to peace the count r y s h ou ld come s Is and back to her income as settled in 1853 ; but then how wer e To - day we had small supplies of gra i n. S ales reed generally prices of wh ea t, b ar l ey, and oats were 6d to per d al- P" y me" th ? cl . " in this to make u year.pthe deficiencies of the w ar expenses t o be In 1853 the right h on . gen tl eman the ` 11. • hi g her * , Ther •inember for the University of Oxford estim a t e d th e succcs- Wheat. Barley. j Oats. 1 Beans. -1- •sion duties at 2 millions, but they had o nly p ro d uce d h alf Fi rs t 64s Od 42s Oa I 321 Od I Os 04, o 30 r 4., a million, and the deficiency of lj milli on h a d t o b e made S econ d s3s Od 4 1 s Od I 25s 0,1 , Os O d - the up on spirit duties, so that so far from the arrangement of Third 32s Od 32s Od i 22s Ucl 1 Os Od He 1853 being binding, there had been a d e fi c i ency to a large Oatmeal, 36s to 38s per bag of 2801 b. extent on that one item; besides which there had been a t at iers'f deficiency of 2- . 4 millions on th e ex p en dit ure to b e provided. - i yin (Hear, hear.) They had now t o p rov id e f or the repayment COAL [MARKET,-FEB.- 23. g of Exchequer bonds, a war charge to the amount of 3i Primes of Coal per to n a t th e c l ose o f the market. Nee Y millions; and in order to me e t it, it was proposed to de -1 be sent / fray it out of those of the war taxes, precisely as th e r i g ht s. d. WallsondAke. on e.ho gentleman the memb er f or th e U n i versity of Oxford s West Hartley _A 3 0 s c a . .rae- Bates' tart' A similar occasion d e f raye d t h e war expenditure in B e b s id e ' s H ar tl ey 14 3 Glosforth l4 0 • the November. Could it, 'therefore, be sa id th at th e G overn- Bell's Primrose l2 0 R u ssell's Hetton .......... 1 6 0 went, in the course th e y h a d proposed, were departing H as ti ngs ' H ar tl ey l4 3 e at ° wart's..... . ....... 17 9 ) P f "; from the budget o f 1853 one j ot more than the right hon. D av i son ' s W es t H ar tl ey 14 6 Riddell .... . ...... 14 0 iongridge's WstHartleyl4 3 Plummer ...... , g 6 ein gentleman did in 1854? 'The right hon. baronet, at great North Percy Hartley ...13 0 asaham . ' .... ' ...... ''''' a ..................... 16 4 Bit length, defended the conduct of the Government, and de- 13 6 /radon vied that it was a " quibble " between imposing and ranfield Moor Go- Canfield Moor Butes 13 6 tiraddyll .. .. .16 0 rid ; taking off taxes, and that if the, house went into corn- Walker Primrose l3 0 South Hetion .•••••••••• " ' . .17 - 3 uld mittee the whole of the estimates could be properly wyjam ............. 16 3. considered, and explained, and adjusted to the re- g e l ywe ll own 16 0 Cowpen Hartley ....„,„,14 6 lair quirements of the country. (Hear, hear.) The right hon ships at market... 66 j Sold. for ourable baronet also defended his own conduct, as well 54 ' ir.) as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, from the remarks that se -__-_e_---_7-.......-..„................... ant had been m a d e b y th e right hon. gentleman the mem b er f or the the University of Oxford, in the course of which he charged [ArovERTI SBMENT.]--Holloway's Pills.--Aisother wens to the right hon. gentleman with having used language to the derful cure of Asthma.-Extract of a letter from Mrs. Lord -st ree t, Li verpoo l , to P rofessor Hello he country-such as was un b ecom i n g ono gen t leman sot Chan cellor of the Exchequer relative to his assertions being An n J ones [ed contrary to fa c t, an d lik e l y t o m i s l ea d the tleman to an- house and the way :-" , I was seri ous ly a ffli c t e d f or five yeara with , as oth er - (hear, hear) - and with a feeling of acrimony such asthma, fre quen tl y expectorating blood, palpitation of the heart, t oge th er w i t h f a i ntness and cold sweat. In this stat e I con ti nue d f or several months. I consulted „, as was rarely w it nesse d i n th a t house .( Hear, hear, and 7 cries of divide.) The right hon. baronet, amidst cries of -' divide, defend e d hi s o wn conduct from the charge that h a d the faculty un til a ll h ope of rel i ef vanished, when I was 3d ar been made against it by the right hon. gentleman the m em - pre va il e d upon to give your pills a trial. Under their t' ber for the University of Oxford, that he (Sir C. Wood) influence this terrible malady quickly di sa p peare d , an d , d wished to perpetuate the income tax, and he read extracts any health is now re es t a bli s h e d . -S o ld by all medicine ; from his speeches relative to the question made on former vendors throughout the world, at Professor Holloway' e occasions. The right hon. gentleman the member for the Establishments, 244, Strand, London ;and 80; Maiden' '" r. University of Oxford had objected to everythin g , an d pro an increase on fire ins posed nothing in return, except . incur- 'ane, New York ; by A. Stamps. Constantinople; it it Gaidicy, Smyrna • and E. Muir, Malta , ante duties, on the paper duties, and on wine. The Chan- 1 a, cellor of the Exchequer by his proposition did not pledge e +swag d Mrs. Fetherstone ,) the Government to abolish the income tax in 1860, but to BIRTHS. It put the finances of the country in such a position as to render it possible. The most painful task for a Government Or A 1301 f. was to reduce the estimates. And the same difficulty at tended reducing the establishments from war to peace as On the 221 inst , e haugh of ' c t.l Ireland there as e, there were to properly • and e ffi ciently increase them from s ' • t Tipper Tooting, Mrs. Jhß e On the 22d nest., a • 4 Milano peace to war. The estimates for the year depended on the at 91, Eaton-square, OF A DAUGHTER. _ circumstances of the time, and if the house went into com at Wilton-street, B , iiiittee the Government would endeavour to justify them. On. the 21st ins t.,___.nn elgrave-square, the - It was the desire and object of the Government to pro- Hon. Mrs. Rowland wi duce the estimates as low as was consistent with economy a t 51, Cado On the 21st inst., gau - Place, the wife of Robt. and a due regard to the efficiency of the service. (Hear, Woodhouse, Esq. i hear, and cries of divide.) He repudiated any contract MA RR IED. or agreement on the part of the Government as to the he 23d inst.,George' abolition of the income tax in 1860; but the proposals On t of e s, Hanover-street, Peter of the Government, if followed, were likely to render Audley Lovell, Esq., uole-park, 'Wilts, to Mary Jane, daughter of David P ugh, the its - being accomplished both probable and easy. (Hear, youngestdol, Montgomeryshire Esq., M.P., of Lien hear.) He - called on the house to reject the two pro crebYthe 21st inst at All ' positions before them, and to enable the house to go into on . . ..*2 - Souls', Langharn-place, Benjamin w, Rieharason, es e p committee on the estimates. •, of 12, Hinde-street, Manchester uare to Mary youn e Mr. GLADSTONE explained, He had no desire to use set ' f Mortlake, gst daughter of the late Edwd. Smith, language to the Chancellor cf the Exchequer which one Esel.r.°Surrey. gentleman ought not to use to another and if he had, he DIED. was very sorry for it. He reiterated his former statement, On the 19th Janus that the Chancellorof the Exchequer'was in error when he Island, in the 26th 7, at the residence of her father, Turk's said' he proposed to reduce taxation to the amount o f of Francis Ellis, Es 7e a of her age, Laura, the beloved wife 11,970,0001,, and quoted the passage ,in the Chancel l o r o his of the Hon. James hiis cla 9ueen's Advocate, and eldest daughter ick, of that island. the Exchequer's reported speech in confirmation f 0 the 223 l us t, ~ serious n -- a s G statement. The statement he said contained very D m ill B ov e, art. , 5 , Grosvenor-square, Sir Compton to produce erro-errors on matters of fact, and were likelyOn the 23d inst. at 33, Burton-street, Henry Austen menu impressions. said that Harrison, Esq aeed'6s The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQU ER hen. On the 22d 2 ' 65. occasion by the r i g ht on. rust ,at 16, Lincoln's-inn-fields, Edith Sophia, the language used on a former Chancellor of the Ex- infant daughter •' • of Captain H. L. Layard. gentleman did convey to his (the chequer's) mind dire ct terms that he ha d the22d i in order to On nst., in Graceehurch-st ree t, M r . Ed mun d P a l. in advasetageto the lister, aged scpport his argument and obtaia an undue before the house a On the 21 71 . 21st inst at 18, Sussex-place, Regent's-park, Chas • reputation of the Government, la ud • t the report of Bradsh aw Stutfield, Esq., aged 62. statement that was incorrect. Qa loo ki n g •A f found the words which he used that occasionhe o nothing' _ On . the 20th inst., Mr. Lee Devereux, of 99, St. John-street ; ' t with truth in them, except the ex- Sm ithfield -bars, aged 60. that was not cons isten t hehal stated inadvertentlythat On the 20th inst at 5 . , Southampton-street, Fitzroy-sq pression that he presume d ~ instead of stating that "tits M D • ' r. avid Levy, aged 85. c he propose[ to remove, " following taxation would be removed •(Laughter,) From On the 21st inst., at Bath, the Rev. John Bramatane Stelae the length at which he addressed th e house on the occasion Of Forest H a ll , U ngar, Essex, aged 84. - referred to, and hisdesire • . -... ho might have erred in not being sufficiently r el - - - - -------- ---.• _ , was necessary, •1' 't (Laughter.) What he meant to say was the re- e _ cap loci . 1,0 DO • Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, to the amountnemed would be for the en- N N - mission of taxes No. ing year, whereas his right hon. friend had charged him of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, suing year, whereas his right hon. friend had charged him of No. 112, Shrand, Printer, at T/t sun Office, No. with saying that remission Would take place in the year. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county li e gonad, the house he 414 AO 40101 to take 409tht fer of Aliddle4exe Wlteticipy, .FobrivArY 24, UN, . . Naval and kdilitary Intelligence. The Dako of Cambridge, as the General Commanding' - in -Chief, attended by his Aide-de-Camp and the Adjutant' General, left town yesterday morning in order to make as inspection of the whole of the troops in camp at Aldershot. His Royal Highness returned to town in the evening. ' Yesterday the whole battalion of the Chatham division of Royal Marines assembled on the parade-ground at Chat- - ham for the purpose of witnessing the presentation of a silver medal, with a gratuity of 154, which had bean awarded by the Lords of th e Admiralty to Colour-Sergt. Frederick J. Mills, Royal Marines, for long service and meritorious conduct. The battalion having been formed into close column by Limit-Col. Anderson, the medal was presented to Sergeant Mills by Col. Second -Commandant • E. Rea, Who said it was always a source of pleasure to pre sent medals of this character, for although many men were decorated with medals for various services, yet but cent* paratively few had received one for long service and ' conduct; the medal would therefore be looked upon as certificate that the wearer had served his Queen and collo try with honour and distinction. Sergeant Mills has bees, upwarde of 21 years in the service, 17 of which he has been a non-commissioned officer. He served in SEeil t under the late Lieut.-General Sir John Owen li.ultev and again in Chi na , f or w hi c h he is decorated wi th ., a medal. He also served in the Baltic, _which likewiee. entitles him to a medal. The Cumberland, 70, was towed from Chatham to Sheer ness yesterday by the African and Adder steamers for the purpose of being made ready for sea. A new vessel, the Mersey, 40, has just been commenced at Chatham, and when completed will be one of the longest frigates in the navy, her length over all being 336 feet.: and burden 3,726 tons. This frigate has beet} designed by ' Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy. The Racoon, 21, screw-corvette, of 1,462 tons burdsole, commenced in May of last year, is being completed all despatch, and will be Immo - lied during the present year. Mr. John H. Langley, first class engineer of the 21st of July, 1847, late chief of the Agamemnon, has taken tIP his appointment as inspector of machinery to the steam squadron of reserve at Sheerness (holding a commander's rank). He joins the Edinburgh, GO-gun screw steam -ship. The Iris, 26 guns, Captain William Loring, C. 8., left Sheerness yesterday in tow of ,the steam-vessel Cuckoo Lieutenant Commander Augustus G. E. Murray, for Ports. month, there to await her final orders. The Nimrod, 6, screw steam gun-vessel, left Sheerness yesterday for Portsmouth. The Dragon, 6 guns, paddle-wheel stem-frigate, be been placed in the second class steam squadron of reserve at Sheerness, under charge of Captain Edward P. Halsted, of the Edinburgh. CommanderKeatley was yestedaapointed 1/ the Board of Admiralty agent of mails r ont h eAustraliPa station. , RD—FEB. 20. of wheat on offer to-day, but state, and the trade very O n ; Ltaining the last week's prices• t alteration, exceptingboans OL )(1 is cheaper. a. 0. 30 Oats, per qr. Peas, Partrid ge 4l 43 White 39 46 Boiling 39 46 Dun 37 33 Beans, Tiak 35 33 Harrow ticks 39 47 Mazagart ...... 34 56 Ditto, now 34' 37 COLCHESTER— FEL 21. We had a moderate supply of wheat on offer to-day, but much of it was in a very bad state and nearly unsaleable. Dry parcels at last week's prices. The supply of barley ig falling off, and the market closed rather dearer. Beans and peas in fair demand for seed at full prices. • Prices to-day - were as follow :—Wheat, white, 624 to 6S I ; red, 50s to 60s; barley, 44s to 501 ; oats, 22s to 284 ; beano, Mazagan, 34s to 363; middle and small, 36s to 404; peas, white, 38s to 43s ; grey, 38s to 420. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c., received in the port of London, from the following n•ts, frog Fub. 16 to Feb. 21, both inclusive. s (1. Gosforth l4 0; Russell's Hetton l6 . 0 ,i.th wa rt's ' .... , ..... .. 17 9 . .Riddell .... . ....... 14 0 Plummer ..................15 6 . ieaham ............:........ 16 3 Barton ...... .:............14 3 Braddyll. ....... . .....:.:16. .. 0 ! I Men Main l6 3. O u w t pe h.l n fe H t a t 7tle:.. .. . 1 1 47 - 64: -' ' ;6 1 Bold 54 - ' ' - . 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He had great confidence in the pliability of the - noble lord: - He believed he was like those trees that wea thered the gale by bending to the storm, and if the house vas firm in reference to the . present proposal, he had no doubt that the Government would re-consider their budget and re-introduce it hereafter in an altered form, with largely decreased estimates of expenditure, and omitting alto gether that part of their scheme which contemplated any addition to the scale of duties already fixed by Parliament on tea and sugar. Mr. NEWDEGATE contended that it was not the duty of Parliament 'to. proceed upon speculation. What they ought to do was to ascertain first what amount of expendi ture the requirements of the State demanded, and then find the means of providing it. (Hear, hear.) The war 9d. must undoubtedly be repealed—(hear, hear)—about that there was no question—(hear, hear)—but he objected to the Government propositions because, instead of confining themselves simply to the remission of the war portion of the income tax, they attempted to bind the house to au expenditure extending over the next three years. He de nied that any of the precedents w hi c h_ had been quoted ap plied. He was not for cutting down expenses beyond what was necessary, and he believed that in some instances the old peace standard of -our naval and military establish ments must be increased ; but they ought to have the op portunity of examining the estimates of expenditure be fore they were called upon to deoide upon the income, and certainly they had no right to be called upon to make pro vision for 1858.9 and 1859-60 before they knew what the requirements of those years might be. (Hear, hear.) Sir C. WOOD said it was quite true the right hon. gentleman who had just sat down had stated the usual Parliamentary practice. It was not of their own free will that Government adopted the course that had been pur sued, but in deference to the general wish of the house. Mr. DISRAE LI —No. Sir C. WOOD—I beg the right hon. gentleman's par don. ` the remission of taxes to whichhewasent .and orth to ffei e public. a false impression in the mind of the house , The question was then put that the d e b a te be adjourned and the house divided. The numbers w ere : Against the adjournment 477 For the adjournment 25 Majority —462 l i te . c The hous e th en di v id e d upon th e or i g i na l motion. TM numbers were-- For the motion For the amendment Majority The house then wont into committee. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that if the resolutions were likely to demand discussion ho would be willing to move that the Chairman report pro' grass, but if not he should move that they be agreed to, Mr. DISRAELI said he should object to proceed at that time as the resolutions would lead to something wore than discussion. He hoped, therefore, that the right hop., gentleman would not then press the resolution upon - NO house. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER assented, and the house resumed. The Commons Inclosure Bill passed through committee. The lonian Subjects Commission Bill was read a third time. The Public Health Supplemental Bill was read a third time and passed. The Lighting of Towns (Ireland) Act Amendment Bill was read a second time. BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS. Lord PALMERSTON.tnoved that the following wool' hers be on this committee :—Lord John Russell, Mr. Wel' polo, Mr. Solicitor-General, Mr. Cobden, the Lord Advo• sate, Mr. Barrow, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Berkeley, Mr. Deedes, Mr. George B u tt, M r . G eorge Alexander Thalia' ton, Mr. Ingham, Mr. Ker Seymour, Sir William Soma. - • villa, and Mr. Tite. Mr. O'BRIEN objected that there was only one man on the committee. Mr. M`CANN said he thought the committee was YorY properly named, for Irishmen had no money to bribe with, and knew nothing about the subject to be inquired into. :` He was only sorry to see an Irishman upon it at all. The motion w as th en agree d t o, and the house adjournea- ' • • at one o'clock.