The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-29 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

In U.. 110116 e of Lords, April 24, the Royal assent was given
o,,,,,attsion to ti.o tolloaleg bills viz —The POlll Lew
Loans BUI, the Mutiny 1111, and the Marko Ilutlny Lill. Tile
Lords Commissioners W, r • the Lent 47,.ancellor, Lord loe
Talley, sod Viscount Ei)olloy.
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Lord Kimberley saki it was his intention to present on
behalf of the lever relent on Thursday nest a bill founded
00 the evidence taken before a committee of the 110Ule of
Commons with reference to the slate of Westmeath. The
bill would be to repress, within certain local limits, the
crimes and the °nevi...3 which that evieence had shown were
committed by secret socletlee. Without discourtesy to the
Marquis of Clanrlearde, he hved he might move for the
papers on the subject, •oid that as early a day as possible
would be Bred for proceedlog with the bill.
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The Duke of 'lichen- nil hoped there mould be no delay in
printing the pap, ra mat they roteht be In the hands of
noble lords before the secoml reading.
After some conyerartion, the motion to tend a mirage to
the lions° of Commons for the pays 1,1 was mreeii to.
Lord GraLvllle appesied to Lord Salisbury—who had In-
tended to call attention to the proposals of lb. Endowed
Schools Conirufssloher4 in ye poet to the Emanuel Charity—
to postpone his speech until the scheme should be In due
course laid before Pas itament.
Lord Cairns supported this recommendelon.
Lord Salisbury declined to aeoede to tho appeal on the
ground that it was morteatry to brink the matter hefore thir
lordships in order to socertaln how for they screed with the
principle 101 l down by the Comudsidoners.
After remarks from Lint lielitar, Lord Buckburist, Lord
Littleton, 1...0d Carmrroo, and the Bishop of Erato?,
Lord Salisbury bristly commented on some trio nestencles
which had manifesto: thee:Acts,os among the apologists of
the scion., of the Coinmissionera, and the dhoussiou was
closed by .

Lord (Irani& le, who. hJ ho could not regrct the C. ebate,
regarded It as most Irreguler, since noble Lords had been dLs-
cueing • paper which .41.1 not before the House.
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the Lord thaecellor, in moving the second reading of the
Bankruptcy Diqualitlcation Bill. alld It had been rOndered
necessary by the recent Bankruptcy Act, which made Peers
for the first time amenable to toe laWs affecting bankrupts.
Thu ether house had, so long plc, as 1812, declared that its
members ehould not et oat vote While their debts were still
nntettstied, end it was desirable that their lordships ebould
be not leas careful of the dignity of theD ItAtee. In tLe
Goa° of the bankrupicy eat a Peer ho proulted to give
him twelve menthe grace to which to satiety bin
creditors, or to thaw that he ought not to have been de-
clared a bankrupt. If he faded to do either, he was to
longer to sit and vole tither in the Home of Lords or upon
IS committees, and ail act in contravention thereof womd
be a contempt of the Hull.. The Act would be retrospec•
five, and would likewLe ItiVy Lip say ngLgropt who might
afterwards succeed to a peereae„
The Duke of Richmond expressed his cordial coucurrence
Is the principle of the bill.
11w.. then read a Peeoll,l time.

The Promisecry 0.11, 1111 was, after • brief explanation
by the I,rd Chancellor, read o tecond time, and their lord-
ships adjourned.
la the House of Commons, ti,e Speaker, in accordance
with • mempage c-nveytd by Black Itol, pioe eded ha
Upper HOUse to hear the It pal aysaLt given by commis-
Mon, to bills agreed on by both Homes.

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Mr. Rylands presented petition from the Nattarsi
Reform Association In opposition generally to the propueal•
ontainedin the Rudget

Mr. White presented pelllons from persons engaged in the
manufacture of matches ag•inst the Dia:cites laity Bill.
Mr. Gilpin gave notice that on the 12:h May Ile would call
attention to the report of to Rotel Combdrshm on captt..l
punishment: and would move—" Thst until the decision r
the 110.8 has been taken on that report. the flume Secre-
tary should be guided by th to reconum ndations on which
the COMMiniol.ord were unanimous, In advising the extrc'ee
of the Royal prerogative of mercy."
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Mr. Henderson Intimated that In consequence of what held
taken place In the emirs of Common Pleas day, when font
of her Majesty's judges differed I. to the Interpretation of •
clause of the Itspreeentstion of the People'. Act, he should
move for to bring lu 010111 for the amendment of clause AI
of that Act.

Mr. Whalley Impart d whether the Il.nne Secretary had
any communication relettve to the murderous outrage on Mr.
Murphy at Whltehaven.

Mr. Secretary Bruce replied that he had rect. lye' no com-
munication on the subject.

An hon. member gave notice that on the ecoi.d rcsding of
She Charity Commlastoters Bill ha, would u.or e that it be raad
second tame that day els months.

Mr. Dixon gave notice ot hie Intention to move the rejection
ot the MatcLea Bill, and Mr Alderman Lawrence gore notice
that on the ILc me Tat Iteaolutiona Le will move that it le
Inexpedient to change poundsge tor percentage.
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On going Into Committee 01 Wats aud tiesut on the re-
maining Budget ltteeintione,
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Mr. White moved the resolution of which he had given
notice—that the additional taxation proposed will entail
burdens on the people which are not juititl ad by extstirg cir-
cumstance.. lie disclaimed earnestly all Itesim to treat this
ma • question of confidence. Or the c mtrary, be t-ut himself
forward as tho "candid friend "of the Government. warning
them of the risk they ran of alienating and Megnetiag a large
section of their most earnest supporter.. In the Brat ce
he argued that Mr. Lowe Ind greatly umiermetimated the
revenue of the coming year, and had taken no note of the re-
vival of commercial and manufacturtegfanitotrv, of the cheap.
sea, of c,nr, sad of the condltim ci p.upertnn. Ad-
ditional taxation, therefore, he concluded, was nt.t need.ll.
Next, he contended th st the expendtture, the !arced ever
demanded in time of peace, might be very canatderably
reduced by economic:l administration, by *ref arns of the
Hone Guards, stricter eupervlsion of wont done in the
Navy, constderab'e reduction, in the Civil Service, dor Mr.
White complained that toe Budget was a cer.tratlizlon of
Ilse celebrated L tecubire speeches and a retwm to the had
"Palmerston times," cut con,laeted by candernutng the
Matcri Tax as the cocßscstion of a privet,. industry.
Mr. Ryland., in seconding the reitolut'o 1, entered into the
history of former pan•cf, inalutensiog that the large ex-
penditure which had produced Mast. panic 111.1 get was
attributable to the sclvtiy of the paatanent spending
officials.

Sir 11. Salwln.lnlietsm, In supporting the retoltaion,
clamed all party motive& and all desire to emliarras the
Government in patthig the defence, ol the e.untry In an
efficient condition, but founded hit opposlti.n solely on his
strong dislike to all the propoaliton• of the Baileid. The
Match Tax, be argued, would deatroy the ioda,try alto-
gether or drive it abroad, and woad not produee the re-
venue expected. To the altered et in the SUCC:II6L.II Day
he was equally °prowl, allowing how oppressively it would
work, and how It would be trawl.

Jr, Helms protested heartily aga,nst the Budget through-
out, and maintained that the *voting revenue weuld pro-
duce 10 much so much more than Xr. LOW. had cAlculated
that one penny Income Tax would proenee eV that was
needed. Ile dwelt on the objections to tne !dutch Tax,
showing that It would sweep awey £f:30,000 of wafes earned
chiefly by women and 01s, and {min.:Jug nut tlibt as It col,.
elided with the first )ear's coat of abolhhibg purchwe is the
Army, ,t might have a damaging effect on Mr. C.rdwell's hUt
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The Chancellor ef the Exchequer complained of the in-
cow/tinkle mode in whith the Budget was being attacked,
and weld on to sey, that—No Meg can be more reasonab:e
than that whoa a large ragmentatien of the expe..diture ni
the country la prep-nal boo. geetlemen Omelet erbium the
matter and turn it over In every passible memo,. . . . When
a private person is considering what he can spend and what
he
cannot spend he looks at his Income lie knows that lets
Income is limited, and if hobo • prudent man he limiter his
expenditure ei hie Income. But when • great country with
resources to draw upon, at least, commeneurate with any
reasonable demand that men be made epee it has to balance
Its elpenditure and its ince me, It has been, and It ought
to be, the practice to think first of the requirements of the
public service, to cut them down with all pasible economy
and care, and then to provide, at whatever coat to our own
private feelings, the money which Is necessary. To make
this country subordinate to the notions of geetlemen who
represent taxpayers, to make this country subordinate to
• particular sum which they choose to ex neon as tieing the
maximum to be voted, would be an attestation of our duty
to the country. Such • barefaced worship of Mammon
(laughter: would sink this country In it, own
opinion and In the eyes of all the world You
have read a second time a bill framed on the elite
of a very largely thcreasee expenditure on the army
—the Army Regulation hilt—end you have actually voted
In the Army Estimates an increase of the expenditure
which you now ray you do not wish to he:realm. You have
voted every setvlce In the army—an Increnae of meal, an in.
crease of the Militia, tee Volunteers, and R. eserve forcer.
You have increased the Army Eitimates by a million, and
now, because an hon, gentleman on this side of the Hours
makes a motion null carries with him certain members en
this side, on, the Conservative party, who feel teethe honour
of the country cheers from the ()voltam), are going to vote
that the House must undo what it has done and retrice one
steps, that the items granted in Committee are to beset wide,
and that we are to revert to tee expecditore of last year.
That I. the position yoa stand loon this question, and I must
nay I wish you joy or it. ;Ironical cheers from the Opposition).
We have heard gentlemen prioress great patriotism, ad d we
all wish that we should not fall into ceutempt with foreign
rowers as being a country which does not know Its Oren trilni%
said which cannot hold for the space of I wo months &consistent
view of Mown Interests Many hon. gentlemen opposite have
been (emetically urging the Oovernment on to do something
for the honour and defence of the ethntry. But what will
foreign nations think of us If, after a greet piety in thb State
have adopted that view, after we have gone the length of
debating and passing reeolutioes all tending to Increased
expenditure, and after actually voting money, we paw a vote
to undo everything we have done l Who could then say,
e Surely we are a great nation, and • wise and understandleg
people I" (Laughter) I now wish to say a few words on the
other question, because, althoueh the prevent veto relates
not to Way. and Meths hut to expenditure, it is necessary
that I should say something in vindication of the course
pursued by the Government. First of all, I am *ceased of
uneecelearlly Under-estimating the revenue of the cemirg
year. Now, so far from having any whet to neder estimate
It, I ehould have been mush better pleatel If, In ace metrics
with my duty, I could bane Tnt it very much higher, for It
would have been very eOnvenient for me 0 a cluebierable
port:on of the sum oquired could have been provided out
or the Increase of the revenue. The Ileums meet beer
In mind ore very irntortent conekteration. Hon gentle-
men speak °lathe estimates of lest year, wh'eh were exceed-
ingly large; but lad year we remitted upwards of £leeo,ooo
df taxation, which remlesten produced a great Increase
In thous Items of the estleati a welch rerruenel un-
touched. Ties year we propose to Dere se a cot Worsted
amount of Increased taxation, and that tell meet...lly have
an effect In the coutrery direction. . Nothing la so
delightful or racy a; to argon against • tan, because it is
one of those arguments In which, as generally Geminated,
the assailant is certslii to obtain an easy victory. There
never was a tax yet that, taken and arguer, out icy Wolf,
weld be successfully defenled argument. You cannot take
money out or one man's pocket and petit Into another man'e
or into the public purse without Interfering with ht. comforts
and business and doing millions of niesehiet to all directions.
this the nature of a tax to do this, rule it wonla be impose lile
to take any tax by Itself and make out a care f e it, The
peculiarity of the eueement on Written Is that 11 on trey
other question you can show a man that the step he Is
about to take is wrote, he eoes not take it; but, to regard
to taxation, when reit lave galled your victory in
argument, you call preeeed no farther West you MI
propose a •Wefah•rtry alternative Mien re have shown
that legation is wroug in mlnc.ple you have eerily see-
condor! in proving a p. hat width any estelee man would
have admitted before you commenced, said what you
ought then to show is that yen have sometelta which
will produce the tame Cotenant resifts that 'realist have been
produced by the proposed tax without disturbing ents,lng
Interests to the Lame extsnt. Thot no two, gentleman who '
has yet strokes on the suqeet of the Bunnt Inai attempted
to do. Her Majesty's Govennient has been reeked to meet
the difficulties of the case by suspending for a time the rai-
ment of the National Debt, a qaeetlon which I cannot
seriously entertain for a single moment under existing
circumstances. 111 ear, bear) We are told next that we
should have proposed to Begresso the income-tax, and at
cempanylog the surtgestion are atatementa contained in the
Illy articles of the ueerepapere that the greatest diesatiefse-
Mon felt with regard to the Budget solace from the largeness
Of the gum of money proposed ter be raised by means of the
Income-tar (Cries of "No, no !") All I ems say In reply
to that is, that the atatement was contained In the City
wilees of two or three of the principal newspapers. ;Hear,
• i Lien. gentlemen seem to think it is the easiest Helve
In the world to raise money by mean. of the Ineocee Tax,
but they mietake between the facility of Imposing a tax and
!he capability of payleg O. If those hen members had
real all the corresponelecce that has been addressed to me
en the auteeet they would see that there is no tex horse
with se Meth tiapatl,itea ale I. toe lucerne Tax, and it ts
with thia vie.w teat I bare eirtiggled in preparthg this
lutleet, tnt retort:nee ter the making of w Mee all sorts t
sinister maim navelvat bowed to me, to rodeo tile I--
crease of the Imams Tax as light et marble, era .tee I know
how bitterly it plea, ;he lover reeldte ci las, the smell Shop-
keepers, anl persoia tf that kind SIM have to bear no it'
considerable liar len or taxatiou. Iherefere hen, members
win see that If the) axira expenditere were thrown upon
the income Tax, to tar (rota the digiculter Ming welted
another and a greater mot would be exactee . Nothing le
the world is sealer then ire take off a thX, but the ni'me't
you Impure a the every stogie Male ef Inmost is made into a
separate battlefield, and there is always some class of per.
eons concerned In the work ef resistance. Nothing is metier
than to matte Pleetitle oh ;ea.... Take the Succeeei
Duty, tor Instance. It Is • tax that bait been eitiblithed
some la ysan, and whiala was eatlutatol to produce £2,C00,099

—anneal-47 Whereat it has only produced about COOPnO
lament waft willieg to impose the tax when It wee esta
nutted to ',tweet the larger of the lame I have meatiotted,
but,, great outcry Is raised at once sheet I Loa ii; oece to
make et it a very moderato lumens. Indeed. !Beeressions
of ilw,ent The thrives° I prop.. will Wit emend Lt more
than etesetio lon tile Succession Doty Moue. Expo Woes
cf Jima iii ) Before hon. gentlemen offer these objections
Oho steel.' make themselves acquainted with the facts
Le cos, The tee, according to no proposal, would double
I. the Bret stage, and no prodeem eteretioo In the seceed
I Tropes° to put $ n an increase of a sixth. which would
rata a very small sum ludeed, and in the otter stun Lao
aeration la proposed. The Increase 1 propom would not
weigh entirely on landed property, as Seceetsion Duty bad to
Le pen also upon eettled roomette A more reaaonahle cml
Moderato proposal tl aa this I Can hardly twegbe. larded
properly imjeys great exemptions in cuusideretion of the
herder:: that it bears, but In Wanton to these It receives
exemptions to the amount of £1,300,000. which it was never
inatided it should receive; but instead of Fe...posing to
cancel tune exemptions I simply propose to levy at.
addition-al tint, of lore than £3)11,000 nod ant met with
treineneous oule..y. (Hear, heir) Then comes the case of
the matches. (I. mehter.) This questton has already Won
di,Cttme.l nt quite sutficieet length re rhaps, end tho flees 3
may whh not to hear notch morn about them; but the simple
awl Plidi • e le w of tee ram is that matches are a col, ne id ity pro-
duced at en expense which la .moat cominal—the boxes end
packing retareseatiegtbehreateritn,toi the outlay —atal bete:
upon which would hove the telvattage that it would not be
peculiar to Bey particular classes of the community as the
seem atria duty it. leveryeoey would contribute a Httle
under the propoeltem I Leto made, ited I cannot hut regard
It as. el.; advantage that -which some hot, gentlemen think
is a great e Whne proposing this small impost I do not
with the less for the de; when we shall have no prittegral
clues in tots country, hut every member of the gommuuti.y
will contrtbute accAeling to his meant (Ilea; hear.) Then
agate, is is said, to wegerti to this tae, that it Interferes with
Industry and deranges trade. (Hear, heare Of 1:01115111 It
aces WM any hon. gentleman tell toe how a tax can
be Imposed without these things resulting I In all taxa-
tion deeatee these commonplaces ere repented as though
the) did LA sooty to every tax. Take the taxes on malt
and on spirits, tor Inatome. hove they no effect upon le-
tinily and trade? O mote they have, teed very happy
shoal.) we be If we could raise hammy for the public eervice
without imposing city Inch taxes. (Hear, hear.) Tub eystem
of abusing taxes is now ...lied to an exteut that, if
persevere., to, will render the conduct of limancial business
lo tble eniniry almost Imposable. (Hear, bear) Let us
take atm, testa:me. I have beea told that we ought to
put • out, on tea; bat supposing I did, whet would
have teen acid? Simply that we were returning to
the exploded di erten of rahing cut money upon itu-
pees ; that we Weru interfeth g with the enable of the
people by taxing the princrasl beverage enjoyed by the
female tort et tne labouring homiletic., sod that ley our
detestabb legislation we were c netteractln^ the good work
of the seostles of temperance by driving the poorer classes
lotto phiehope and beerhouses. (Hear, hear.) Let on take
another Instance. Here is this small mid very moderate
• direct tee proposed to be added to the Miocene on Duty, a
tsx which If hon. gentlemen knew their own interests
they would not be so anxious to refuse, • tax In regard to
which at la objected that it will come out of netts'
lesteed of out of income; that its effect will be to
intpuveeleh tile people by tektite money out of their
pockets when they most grantee it, and a quantity more of
the same eind which is perfectly true of every stamp dal
that we ever levied. (liear, hear). As we mutt hate
taxation, we think the small addleton to the duty 'melee
on succession to property is an equitable tax to which no
frameable objection cau be made. With regard to the pro-
posed Pe on matches. It is said that you cannot tax a
commodity without enhancing its pace, curtailing the quint-
til y of tie commodity produced, and so interfering with
labour. This Is all very tree, but so long as gentlemen con-
fine themselves to timely ohjectieg to the tux without being
willing to auggeat or CRUM to something elate 1., ita place the
task of finding money for the conduct of public aff ein In
this e entry will be absolutely impossible. (Hear ) It is
seta also that the taxes ought to be diatributed equally, that
too much Is levied on landed property and too little
on article, of consumption, and then in the same breath
hoo. gentlemen inlet thou the taxes on consureptlen ought
to be revised, and so they go on through the whole
iii, If an old tax Is revived, it Is said that the Go.
enflamed is teldeg down out of the dusty armoury
r 1 ancient oppreesein some weapon that eneht
never to have been used gratin, while on a new tax being
proposed Ills said that the Checesllor of the Etchequer it
feedlot and ingenious In devising methods of torture for
his fell. w.subjects. (" Hear, hear," auil a laugh ) There
Is nothing you can do in the way of bastion that is not •
liable to the most plausible zed the truest possible ob-
jections, but the uecestity for taxation remains, and must
ee met. It you destroy the prment Budget, you must Ira-
poem Ines liable to the very &Jenkins you are urging
agateet this particular ova, awe that being the case, I sub-
mit that it Is very unwise and inoprovident in hon. members
me ...viewing to add to the dlfficultli a which must always ,
be temperable from the fiteling out some new tax. The
Home has now got into such a position that we caunnt tell
whet we are debating It Is difficult enough to debate
whae taxes are best to be Imposed, Nit the difficulty la In-
creased when the subject is complicated by a ,lobate on the
teerteity for tee expenditure to meet which the taxes ate
Imposed. If 1 coeffince hem gentlemen that the tux
I propose is a good one, they turn round and say, Yet,
bet year expenditure I. not required at all." (Hear, hour)
Illentered In cone:being yeti that the expenditure Is re. •
gifted. then Ton, gentlemen tutu round and say, That may .
be so, but the taxes you Intim,' to impose are not the right
ones.. (cheers.) .... tthheak in all fairness and reason we I
sbcail keow what you realty mean. teems.) If thte reteletion
is carte:el. It will be necessary for the Government te con- •
miler what they should do, and unless you state whet it is
yin mast the Government will be placed In considerable '
d Mime. y, and the howls will find Welt in a poshion which I
thick they will have no reason to consider satisfactory.

GaNer al P. Herbert enter,' it.to a naluute cAculatlon to
0•B CAL: Sil% OCIli Of the mtiremeht ECUM9, Lciut:irg
whirrs' pcnatons. wculd he close on ter., mill!ona a year.
Thla computation Captain Vivian thought to in utterly
Nitwit-iv. and answered it by another calculation that the
St tart lc., system in 20 years' time would save about •
naillmn a year.

11.% Gilpin expressed deep dissatisfaction with the Budget,
and called on the G3verument to withdraw it; and Mr.
O thirty &greed with those who thought that Mr. L twe had
ettimated the aza revenive, and he ollicted to 03-
urbiug the permanent taxation of the country for the sake
of a temporary donclt. He maintained that thole who
objeJled to the policy of the Builga, but ant to incramed
expenditure, might vote for the Itmolution without Bacon-
sisteucy.
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Mi' tic-ave. repudisted all prey motives for the strong
condemnation which he parted on the Itudrot as ieri trozrade
sten and an tmfortuilate Interforenee with trade and in-
dustry. lie obj-cted, too, to the iccreare of the Death
Dales, and to the change in the mode of levying the Ire tom
Tax, and augured holly for English finance If we were to
take mere leaves from the American book. The 'purchase'
ambition, i.e p toted ont, arrumed a very different arpect
now that the expense of it was to be levied on the very lowert
Mars. lie strongly urged the Government to withdraw the
Itudgot
Mr J mob Bright Oppcwed the klatch Tax, as Wafering
with a trade which i no employment to a large number of
w.thicee and predicted that the increare in the Legacy Duty
alai the new mode of aseerrecir the Income Tax would create
great hardship Ile declaimed spinet the increased upon-
ditu-e, sugz.lesied a special tax on fortunes above £21,000, and
made some revere remarks on the "tender mercies of an
math mime Government • and en the gentlemen to his own
qu wter of the House, not a &e.t.a of whom, he said, had more
than her-weather principles in thla matter of economy.
Mr. Lhidiel, who bad also riven notice of a mothm which
he was ncalele to move, &encored the Budget in connection
with the Army Bill, concluding that the object to be attained
was not worth the additional taxation pr, pined Ile con-
demmd the Budget an a whole as contrary to all the sound
axteins of finance laid down by Mr. Lowe himself, and in
particular stigmatised the Match fax as a cruel import
With no dmire to vote want of c midden., in the Government,
be clip wted the resolution us the best means of bringing
about the withdrawal of the Budget.

Mr. Crawford argued against the Match Tax, and thought
Mr. Le ml,-;ht have avoided all oppoiltion by a penny
additioind Income Tax. Ha also was in favour of the Budget
being w,th 'raven ; betas to the Resolution, holding that the
House had already sanctioned the additional expenditure, he
could not sof* for It.

Mr. Cs!'aeS declined to be fixed in the dilemma Mr. Lowe
had devised for the. Conservative party; become, until the
Army BEI was passed, it could not ho raid that the Gout°
had auctioned the additimal expenditure. ftelerttug to
his reitolle.rtion of the Lance-shire campaign he had fought
with Mr. Gladttone, he maintained that the Government
had not carried out the pledges of reduction which helped
them Into effice. In supporting the resolution he had no
wish to tiers the Government from office, but only (leaked
to induot them to take back their Budget.

Mr. Fawcett maintained that the additional taxation was
not needed, and, If It wore, Mr. Lone had chosen the moat
ol I.ctionsba means of raising P. tinder the latter head he
dwelt on all Vie economical o:jealous to Mr. Lowe's pro-
posals, observing with regard to the Match Tax that, though
it violated all Adam Smith's canons, It had this recommen-
dation, that It would bring home to every cottage what an
extravagant Government we have.
Mr. Disraeli pointed out that the amount of our liability
was net covered by the noires of two millions stated by Mr.
Lowe, for the cost of the Army BM and the transfer of the
!House Tax to the Peal authorities must be taken into the
estimate it. calculated that flu the whole we should haves
live millions deficit to deal with. Of the Ways and Means pro-
posed to meet this he disapproved to every particular.
The Match Tax he characterised as an extremely Injudicloue
proposal, and he toot exception to Mr. Lowe's statistics,
polellog cut that he assumed each household used eighty
boxes a year. To the alterations lathe Succession Duties he
objected that they wet. of • permanent charactnr, and ought
not to he brought into requisition for what were called
transition Estimates, particularly whea they woad brire n
any usufruct within the peer. The result of the change in
the Income-tax would be that none would know what they
had to pay, and he specially objected to it being made
for the impose of abolishing the Purcha e System. I
Though not objecting to a consideration of this atoll-
ten under favourable circumstances, In the i resent
financial crisis behold that it was not the du'y of the House
to proceed with a rehear" whioh certainly would keep lor
another your. As to the traeoluttom Ole. Dineen said that
he should have been ready himself to propose a motion
which might have enabled the Government to withdraw from
the position with dignity and honour .! but Mr. White had
nceoplei the ground. there was nothing, however. In his
Essolition incouri.tent with the general views of the
Opposition, and at they would have no other opportunity
,of exprossing their opinion en the general policy
of the Budget, he Intended to vote for it. Bat Inc
toped it would be unnecessary to divide, and trat the
trimmest!, in deference to the unanimous representations of
Its own suppe,rters, would withdraw or adjourn the Budget ;
and he promised for the Opposition that by no cheer or mur-
mur Wailld they claim • share in the triumph. As to the
question of confidence, Mr. Ditraeli bade the Horne dismiss
from its mind any fear of Ministerial resigaatien. It was a
well estatrished Parliamentary rule that on a financial pro-
, posal the Government need not resign tithe House disagreed
with IS, and Mr. Gladstone would not be so silly as to have
Situlatecial crisis end a mock resignation at this into of
year.
Mr. Gladstone took exception to Mr. Dlsraell's doctrine,
end mnintained that there w. no Instance of a Budget
having been taken back and radically rem•rdelled. But be
did net wish to put this contention too high; in the
details of a Budget, slot vitally effecting its policy,
there wont always he room for est:raiders:ion, particularly
In the ease of an entirely new tax, lit. the Match Ton.
As to the propeael alternative of abaudoniug the
I abolition of Purchase, Mr. Gladstone expressed himself very
I deciderry, and insisted that, if £600.000 must be saved, it
I you'd lo better to save it on arose other item. In.
, the same way be enticed ant .rejected other Mean.-
, titre whrch had been witted.% such as an Increase
fin the Tea and Sugar Dattes, and vindicated the
econnmidal achicverrerts of the Government. As to
I the snoCon, Mr. White, though unconsciously, had
. drawn 14 most astutely, an that two acts of people utterly
discordant in their opinions might agree to support it by
, gutting diametrically opposite constructions upon it.
Aar wain Mr. White arid hie friends to mean by it that there
should be no increase of erpenditure, he pointed out that
the Helve had already decided against them on the motions
of Colonel Lindsay, Mr. Mundell", and Mr. Leathern, and
'could net now draw beet.
After Some observations from Colonel Lindsay, the HMS
divided, and theltesolution was negatived by a majority of
:27-467 to 720.
! Tice other Orders were disposed of, and the House ad-
journed.

In the House of Lord., April 25, the Fairs Bill was passed
throngh committee. Tile Public Parke, etz., Lands Bill WU
gead a third time, and passed.
Lcd Kimberley explained that he should reserve his glute-
n."' uf the provialons of the Westmeath Crime and Outrage
b.c Bill (to be laid on the tablo on Thursday) until
the .t reading, on Tuesday next. With regard to soy
an i n of the standing Orders, the measure was not of
to ,:ea .0 urgency which made such a measure necessary
hr tie ease of some lamas bills of a repressive character.
Lowl Camervon called attention to the Inadequate and
nosittlsf,ctoi7 nature of the supervision exercised over eon.
viets or ticket- ,f.letve and habitual criminals. The run-
let* .0 that the 7mmer should report themselves to the police
war in many districts entirely nugatory, while the general
aupervidon over the criminal chases, which was the essence
of the new system, was nail& d by the defects is the Act of
lien, sod the nvonner in which It was carried out by the
police. Ile inqulred whether the C..vernruent Intended to
Introduce any bill to amend the Habitual Criminals Ad of