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1854. PRICE SIXPENCE. i
very opposite, things, at different times, with .1
an unfaltering voice and countenance; yet it i
would seem to require all the resources of the
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order of Loyola for him to advance and r,,,
recommend the imposition of fresh taxes, for
the sake of maintaining " the integrity and
" independence of Turkey." Why, he takes the
same view of the integrity and independence
of Turkey as Prince MENscluxors does. He
says they are not the same things as the
integrity and independence of France and
England. He quibbled away the whole casus
belli at Manchester; and it is generally under-
stood that when requested by his colleagues
to reply to Mr. COBDEN, in the recent debate i
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on foreign affairs, he declined, on the ground
that in the main he really agreed with the
member for the West Riding.
Will Lord ABERDEEN, who first suggested
the Greek-Church policy to the Emperor of
RUSSIA, as an equivalent for conquest, which
alarms people; who communicated his con-
gratulations to the Times newspaper in May last,
that the Menschikoff " ultimatum " was ac
cepted • who, when the passage of the Pfuth
occurred, wrote to a "foreign conspirator"
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at Paris that it was only the ignorant and the a
evil disposed who could look upon an entrance ,
into the Principalities as an act of invasion; : 1
who devised the Vienna note ; who subse- )
quently proposed the coercion of the Turks
to the acceptance of a similar document ; will
Lord ABERDEEN persuade the people of this
country to endure fresh burdens, in order to •
establish the system of peaceful aggression,
and to accomplish " the policy of conni-
vance"?
And what are these fresh burdens to be?
With the whole weight of our local taxation
resting on real property, with a widely-
extended Income Tax secured for seven years ;
with a heavy Succession Tax, founded on prin-
ciples equally impolitic and unjust, now
coming into grievous operation, what hope is
there, what hope should there be, of increas-
ing the direct taxation of the United King-
dom? Some years ago we were told that
indirect taxation had reached its limit. Since
then we )
have, perseveringly and too precipi-
tately reduced its amount, but no one more
wantonly and more unwisely, than Mr. aidD-
STONE. What if Parliament were now to lir
timate to him that the bounds of direct
taxation have not only been attained, but I
passed ?
THE BURSTING OF THE REFORIit
BUBBLE.
MINISTERS have long since shown themselves
incompetent to act with decision : their con- i em
duct in last night's debate proves 'them equally
unable to speak with frankness. Rarely in
' any assembly has so solemn a farce been wit-
nessed as that in which Lord Jour; Russitu.
1 yesterday played a leading part. The Reform
Bill was to be put off—a reason must be
assigned—no absolute pledge could be given, i 1
but it seemed expedient to hold out hopes that
the delay might be only temporary, partly lest I
) Radical supporters should be alienated—partly
) also in consideration of the speaker's recen
i professions still fresh in parliaments.
memory. All this Lord Jon; undertook to
. do ; and all this he did, with the gravity and
I % dignity of a Minister assigning real readOn4
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